
Last year in the UK over 60,000 cancer patients enrolled on clinical trials aimed at improving cancer treatments and making them available to all.
This study looked at a quality of life questionnaire for people with gallbladder cancer and cancer of the bile duct.
It is important to find out how the symptoms of cancer and the side effects of treatment affect people’s . To find this out, doctors ask people to fill in quality of life questionnaires.
The only questionnaire that people with gallbladder cancer and cancer of the bile duct could fill in was a general one for cancer. It didn’t draw attention to any particular problems that people with gallbladder cancer and cancer of the bile duct had.
The researchers developed a questionnaire (QLQ-BIL21) that looked particularly at the quality of life for people with gallbladder cancer and cancer of the bile duct.
They wanted to find out if it gave a better measure of quality of life for these people when used alongside the general questionnaire.
Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.
Dr John K Ramage
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer
Freephone 0808 800 4040
Last year in the UK over 60,000 cancer patients enrolled on clinical trials aimed at improving cancer treatments and making them available to all.