The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure.

Cella, D F; Tulsky, D S; Gray, G; Sarafian, B; Linn, E; Bonomi, A; Silberman, M; Yellen, S B; Winicour, P; Brannon, J

doi:10.1200/jco.1993.11.3.570

The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure.

PURPOSE We developed and validated a brief, yet sensitive, 33-item general cancer quality-of-life (QL) measure for evaluating patients receiving cancer treatment, called the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) scale. METHODS AND RESULTS The five-phase validation process involved 854 pa…