Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) With Trabectedin

Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are central to understanding the impact of cancer treatments on patients. Treatment may control cancer growth, and even sometimes modestly improve the length of life, but at the expense of disruption of lifestyle, and of toxicities. It is very important to use PROMs to evaluate the balance between these risks and benefits to understand the overall impact of the treatment. It remains poorly described whether patients report improved outcomes during palliative chemotherapy with trabectedin, using high quality questionnaires, and how this may vary with the clinical effects and duration of the treatment and characteristics of the patient.