Cappelaere P, Demaille A
Bull Cancer. 1984;71(4):313-25.
Medical, psychologic, socio-professional and economic side effects of adjuvant chemotherapy are frequent. Some of these are not easily recognized with accuracy. They influence directly the life of treated patients and perhaps later their medical future. They involve the quality of life for cancer patients, after initial curative treatments. Indications for adjuvant chemotherapy cannot be extended without comparative evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages. It is necessary to select patients with the highest probability of improvement in the duration and the quality of life and to give them so active but the least toxic treatments possible.
辅助化疗的医学、心理、社会职业和经济副作用很常见。其中一些不容易被准确识别。它们直接影响接受治疗患者的生活，甚至可能影响其未来的医疗状况。它们涉及癌症患者在初始根治性治疗后的生活质量。在没有对辅助化疗的优缺点进行比较评估的情况下，其适应证不能扩大。有必要选择那些生存期和生活质量改善可能性最大的患者，并给予他们积极但毒性最小的治疗。
