 Karnofsky Performance Status
"Karnofsky Performance Status" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A performance measure for rating the ability of a person to perform usual activities, evaluating a patient's progress after a therapeutic procedure, and determining a patient's suitability for therapy. It is used most commonly in the prognosis of cancer therapy, usually after chemotherapy and customarily administered before and after therapy. It was named for Dr. David A. Karnofsky, an American specialist in cancer chemotherapy.
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D017567
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.250.475.456.500.500 N05.715.360.300.375.375.364.500.500 N06.850.520.308.250.475.364.500.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Karnofsky Performance Status- Karnofsky Performance Status
- Performance Status, Karnofsky
- Status, Karnofsky Performance
- Karnofsky Performance Status Scale
- Karnofsky Scale
- Scale, Karnofsky
- Karnofsky Index
- Index, Karnofsky
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Karnofsky Performance Status" by people in Profiles.
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D'Souza A, Dispenzieri A, Wirk B, Zhang MJ, Huang J, Gertz MA, Kyle RA, Kumar S, Comenzo RL, Peter Gale R, Lazarus HM, Savani BN, Cornell RF, Weiss BM, Vogl DT, Freytes CO, Scott EC, Landau HJ, Moreb JS, Costa LJ, Ramanathan M, Callander NS, Kamble RT, Olsson RF, Ganguly S, Nishihori T, Kindwall-Keller TL, Wood WA, Mark TM, Hari P. Improved Outcomes After Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Light Chain Amyloidosis: A Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Study. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Nov 10; 33(32):3741-9.
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Liu Y, Alexander BM, Chen YH, Horvath MC, Aizer AA, Claus EB, Dunn IF, Golby AJ, Johnson MD, Friesen S, Mannarino EG, Wagar M, Hacker FL, Arvold ND. Salvage whole brain radiotherapy or stereotactic radiosurgery after initial stereotactic radiosurgery for 1-4 brain metastases. J Neurooncol. 2015 Sep; 124(3):429-37.
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Cohen LM, Ruthazer R, Germain MJ. Increasing hospice services for elderly patients maintained with hemodialysis. J Palliat Med. 2010 Jul; 13(7):847-54.
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Tzortzidis F, Elahi F, Wright DC, Temkin N, Natarajan SK, Sekhar LN. Patient outcome at long-term follow-up after aggressive microsurgical resection of cranial base chondrosarcomas. Neurosurgery. 2006 Jun; 58(6):1090-8; discussion 1090-8.
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Polin RS, Marko NF, Ammerman MD, Shaffrey ME, Huang W, Anderson FA, Caputy AJ, Laws ER. Functional outcomes and survival in patients with high-grade gliomas in dominant and nondominant hemispheres. J Neurosurg. 2005 Feb; 102(2):276-83.
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Anderson F, Downing GM, Hill J, Casorso L, Lerch N. Palliative performance scale (PPS): a new tool. J Palliat Care. 1996; 12(1):5-11.
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