AccScience Publishing / JCTR / Volume 9 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.18053/jctres.09.202302.006
EDITORIAL

The role of health-related quality of life in improving cancer outcomes

José Ignacio Nolazco1,2* Steven Lee Chang1,3
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1 Division of Urological Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
2 Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Austral, Universidad Austral, Pilar, Argentina
3 Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Submitted: 29 December 2022 | Revised: 6 March 2023 | Accepted: 7 March 2023 | Published: 28 March 2023
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