The Quality of Life and Cancer Platform constitutes a network of researchers working to improve quality of life research in the management of cancers. Its purpose is to bring together French stakeholders in oncological research, whatever their disciplines and their functions, in order to promote scientific exchanges and reflexions around the quality of life in cancerology. The expertise of the 25 hospitals and university units of the Platform covers the clinic, epidemiology, methodology, psychometry as well as the human, economic and social sciences. The network contributes to federating transversal and multidisciplinary research projects on quality of life, in order to optimize this expertise and the international competitiveness of this research.
The main research areas supported by the Platform
- Conceptual development and integrative approaches of quality of life
- Validation, selection and use of quality of life questionnaires
- Longitudinal quality of life analyzes
- Prognostic value of quality of life and relation with clinical criteria
Expertise of the Platform made available to the scientific community
- Methodological support (study design, choice of tools, timing of evaluations, etc.)
- Statistical support (analysis and interpretation of quality of life data)
- Writing articles about quality of life
- Identification and implementation of ancillary quality of life studies
For more than 10 years, the Quality of Life and Cancer Platform has been certified by the National League Against Cancer and benefits from the institutional support of INCa and its Canceropoles.
For more information: http://www.qualitedeviecancer.fr/