Quality of Life in Patients With Liver Cancer Treated With Image-Guided Therapy

OBJECTIVES:

- Develop a data repository for clinical and health-related quality of life outcome
measures in patients with hepatic malignancies treated with image-guided therapies.

OUTLINE: This is a pilot, prospective, longitudinal study.

Patients complete a standard questionnaire assessing health-related quality of life at
baseline, during routine follow-up care after image-guided therapy, and then annually
thereafter. Health and disease status and the development of other illnesses are assessed by
medical record review.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Not specified

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- Undergoing concurrent image-guided therapy for hepatic malignancies using any of the
following imaging techniques:

- X-ray

- Ultrasound

- MRI

- CT scan

- Nuclear medicine imaging

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

- Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

- See Disease Characteristics