Joint probability framework for the development and validation of a prognostic model for the conditional outcome of quality of life: a retrospective study in historical European cohorts of survivors of head and neck cancer.
Moreira-Soares M; Fossen EIF; Bilbao-Jayo A; Almeida A; Lopez-Perez L; Alonso I; Fernanda Cabrera-Umpierrez M; Fico G; Singer S; Taylor KJ; Thomas S; Pring M; Licitra L; Cavalieri S; Frigessi A; LeBlanc M
The researchers want to predict future quality of life for people with head and neck cancer. They made a new way to predict it, focusing on how life quality is only measurable if the person is alive.