Table 2. Quality of life scores of the included trials.
| Study | Quality of life score | Mean baseline score |
Mean increase |
Results | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment | Control | Treatment | Control | ||||
| Cascinu et al. [1994] (22) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | No significant difference | |
| Gordon et al. [2008] (23) | FACT- F | 30 | 25 | 4.8 | 5 | No significant difference | |
| Smith et al. [2008] (29) | FACT- F | 28.46 | 29.22 | 0.52 | –0.02 | No significant difference | |
| Hernandez et al. [2009] (24) | FACT-F | NA | NA | NA | NA | No significant difference | |
| Tjulandin et al. [2010] (25) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
| Fujisaka et al. [2011] (26) | FACT-An | NA | NA | 0.3 | –0.99 | No significant difference | |
| Tjulandin et al. [2011] (27) | FACT- F | NA | NA | 2.9±7.9 | 0.6±8.8 | No significant difference | |
| Cabanillas et al. [2012] (28) | FACT-An | NA | NA | NA | NA | No significant difference | |
NA, not available.