Table 3. Factors predicting health-related quality of life as estimated on the EuroQol VAS in a multivariate regression analysis.

	t-value	Significance
Worst pain last week	−15.47	<0.001
Dead before 31 December 2000	−5.91	<0.001
Age (years)	−5.84	<0.001
Health-care availability	−4.90	<0.001
Palliative treatment	−2.26	0.024
Time since diagnosis	−0.71	0.48
Tumour stage at diagnosis	0.50	0.62
Civil stage	0.26	0.80
Treatment with curative intent	−0.043	0.97

VAS=visual analogue scale.