A Symptom Profile can be used to assess a cancer patient's complications following radiation therapy and can be monitored over time.
Symptoms queried for:
(1) sleep difficulties
(2) fatigue
(3) skin changes
(4) anorexia
(5) nausea
(6) vomiting
(7) indigestion
(8) diarrhea
(9) constipation
(10) sore throat
(11) cough
(12) difficulty swallowing
(13) changes in saliva
(14) pain
(15) urinary frequency
(16) other, not specified above
Symptom Severity
Points
not bad
0
a little bad
1
moderately bad
2
quite bad
3
extremely bad
4
NOTE: The assigning of a point score was not given in the original paper. I added this for preparing a spreadsheet.
total symptom score =
= SUM(points for all of the symptoms)
Interpretation:
• minimum total score: 0
• maximum total score: 64
• The number of symptoms causing moderately bad, quite bad and extremely bad distress also is informative.
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Purpose: To evaluate the symptoms felt by a cancer patient following radiation therapy.
Specialty: Hematology Oncology
Objective: complications, response to therapy
ICD-10: T66,
