Predictive Model for Survival in Patients With Advanced Cancer

To derive and validate a simple predictive model for survival of patients with metastatic cancer attending a palliative radiotherapy clinic.We described previously a model predicting survival of patients referred for palliative radiotherapy using six prognostic factors: primary cancer site, site of metastases, Karnofsky performance score (KPS), and the fatigue, appetite, and shortness of breath subscales from the Edmonton Symptom Assessment...