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Quality of life in patients at risk of medullary thyroid carcinoma and followed by a comprehensive medical network: trends for future evaluations.
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology - 1 Oct 2001
Freyer G, Ligneau B, Schlumberger M, Blandy C, Contedevolx B, Trillet-Lenoir V, Lenoir G M, Chau N, Dazord A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: As shown in a previous study, the knowledge of the genetic risk in individuals belonging to families at risk of medullary-thyroid carcinoma (MTC) could be associated with impaired quality of life (QoL). PATIENTS AND METHODS: In the present study, we compared the QoL scores obtained in the same period with the subjective quality of life profile (SQLP): in 82 individuals at risk of MTC who had been...
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