Symptom burden in patients with common cancers near end-of-life and its associations with clinical characteristics: a real-world study

Patients dying with cancer can experience various physical and psychological symptoms. We aimed to determine the type and severity of symptoms within the last 6 months of life in a large real-world cohort of patients with cancer. We examined prospectively collected patient-reported outcomes of patients with lung, colorectal, breast, prostate or pancreatic cancer using the revised Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESASr) questionnaire from a...