Table 3.

Examples of patient-reported outcomes relating to HRQOL during key stages of HNC

Diagnosis	• Patient Concerns Inventory-Diagnosis41
	• Satisfaction with Cancer Information profile (SCIP)40
Treatment	• Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)83
	• Symptom Severity Scale (SSS)84
	• Visual Analog Scale (VAS)85
Acute toxicity	• Late Effects in Normal Tissue (LENT)86/Subjective-Objective-Management-Analytic (SOMA)49
	• Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTC-AE)87
	• Oral Mucositis Weekly Questionnaire-Head and Neck Cancer (OMWQ-HN)88
Early recovery	• EuroQOL EQ-5D-5L89
	• European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLC-C3090 and EORTC H&N 3591
	• Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Head and Neck (FACT-H&N)92
	• University of Washington Quality of Life Scale (UW-QoL v4)93
	• Patient Concerns Inventory (PCI-HN)58
Late effects	• Oral rehabilitation: Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire (LORQ)94
	• Trismus: Gothenburg Trismus Questionnaire (GTQ)95
	• Swallowing: Swallowing Quality of Life Questionnaire (SWAL-QOL)96
	• Xerostomia Questionnaire (XQ)97
Recurrence	• Vanderbilt Head and Neck Symptom Survey (VHNSS)98
Palliation	• EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL99
	• Family Assessment of Treatment at the End of life (FATE)100
	• Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL)76

Abbreviation: HRQOL, health related quality of life; HNC, head and neck cancer.