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SUBMITTER: Obasaju C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3660084 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Obasaju C C Bowman L L Wang P P Shen W W Winfree K B KB Smyth E N EN Boye M E ME John W W Brodowicz T T Belani C P CP
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 20130404 6
<h4>Background</h4>This was a post hoc analysis of patients with non-squamous histology from a phase III maintenance pemetrexed study in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).<h4>Patients and methods</h4>The six symptom items' [average symptom burden index (ASBI)] mean at baseline was calculated using the lung cancer symptom scale (LCSS). Low and high symptom burden (LSB, ASBI < 25; HSB, ASBI ≥ 25) and performance status (PS: 0, 1) subgroups were analyzed for treatment effect on progressio ...[more]