A Critical Review of the Impact of Sarcoma on Psychosocial Wellbeing

Table 7

Comparison to other cancer types¹.

First author	Comparator^2	Quality of life^3	Domains^3	Mental health	Others
Aksnes et al. [29]	Hodgkin’s disease; Testicular cancer	−; −	PCS; PCS	=; =	=fatigue; =fatigue
Hinds et al. [57]	Acute myeloid leukaemia	−
Nagarajan et al. [71]	Survivors of other cancers			-
Ostacoli et al. [72]	Common cancers	=		-
Podleska et al. [78]	Other cancer patients	+

PCS: physical component score. ¹Minus (−): poorer in comparison; plus (+): better; equals (=): no difference. ²Direction of significance, i.e., better or worse, based on the first comparator, or the last time point if a longitudinal comparison. ³Result based on overall or summary scores; if these were not provided, result at domain score level was provided (QLQ-C30 functional scale only).