Symptom Burden, Survival and Palliative Care in Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Table 3

The documentation of symptoms. (Due to the small numbers, only the three commonest documented symptoms at the time of first- and second-line chemotherapy and best supportive care decision are shown here).

Symptom	First-line palliative chemotherapy; (𝑛=50)	Second-line palliative chemotherapy; (𝑛=28)	Best supportive care; (𝑛=48)
Pain documented as:
Present controlled	15 (30%)	19 (68%)	15 (31%)
Present uncontrolled	10 (20%)	4 (14%)	23 (48%)
Absent documented	15 (30%)	2 (7%)	7 (15%)
Not recorded	10 (20%)	3 (11%)	3 (6%)
Breathlessness documented as:
Present controlled	7 (14%)	10 (36%)	6 (13%)
Present uncontrolled	3 (6%)	1 (4%)	15 (31%)
Absent documented	20 (40%)	8 (28%)	20 (43%)
Not recorded	20 (40%)	9 (32%)	7 (15%)
Nausea and Vomiting documented as:
Present controlled	8 (16%)	4 (14%)	15 (31%)
Present uncontrolled	3 (6%)	1 (4%)	2 (4%)
Absent documented	21 (42%)	15 (54%)	21 (44%)
Not recorded	18 (36%)	8 (28%)	10 (21%)