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FACT-Anemia: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—Anemia

The FACT-Anemia (FACT-An) is a quality-of-life measure combining the 27-item FACT-G core with a disease-specific subscale focusing on fatigue and anemia-related symptoms common in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy or dealing with cancer-induced anemia. Developed by Yellen et al. in 1997, it quantifies the impact of chemotherapy-induced anemia on functional and emotional well-being, supporting clinical trials and anemia treatment research.

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  1. Yellen, S. B., Cella, D. F., Webster, K., Blendowski, C., & Kaplan, E. (1997). Measuring fatigue and other anemia-related symptoms with the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) measurement system. J Pain Symptom Manage, 13(2), 63–74. DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3924(96)00274-6
  2. Cella, D. F., Tulsky, D. S., Gray, G., Sarafian, B., Linn, E., Bonomi, A., et al. (1993). The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure. J Clin Oncol, 11(3), 570–579. DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1993.11.3.570

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