The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: a quality-of-life instrument for use in international clinical trials in oncology.

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Published in J Natl Cancer Inst on March 03, 1993

Authors

N K Aaronson, S Ahmedzai, B Bergman, M Bullinger, A Cull, N J Duez, A Filiberti, H Flechtner, S B Fleishman, J C de Haes

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