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	Scala di Valutazione dei Sintomi Memoriale (MSAS)	Valutazione Funzionale della Terapia Oncologica-Generale (FACT-G)
Campo	Infermieristica oncologica	Infermieristica oncologica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1994	1993
Ideatore	Russell Portenoy	David Cella
Tipo	Patient self-report multisymptom prevalence and distress scale	Patient self-report questionnaire
Fonte seminale	Portenoy, R. K., Thaler, H. T., Kornblith, A. B., et al. (1994). The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale: an instrument for the evaluation of symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress. Eur J Cancer, 30A(9), 1326–1336.	Cella, D. F., Tulsky, D. S., Gray, G., et al. (1993). The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of a general measure. J Clin Oncol, 11(3), 570–579.
Alias	MSAS, MSAS-SF	FACT-General
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale is a comprehensive multisymptom instrument that captures both prevalence and distress of 32 cancer-related symptoms (full version) or 10 core symptoms (short form). Developed by Portenoy and colleagues at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1994, the MSAS is designed for detailed symptom profiling in oncology research and clinical practice, enabling identification of symptom clusters and assessment of physical and psychological symptom burden separately.	The FACT-G is a 27-item self-report questionnaire measuring health-related quality of life in cancer patients across four key domains: physical, social/family, emotional, and functional well-being. Developed by Cella et al. in 1993, it has become one of the most widely used generic QoL instruments in oncology research and clinical practice, translated into 40+ languages and validated across diverse cancer populations.