What is Symptom Research?
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MD Anderson Symptom Research
100

This is something a patient feels, such as pain, fatigue or nausea.

What is a symptom?

100

PRO stands for this type of information collected directly from patients.

What are Patient-Reported Outcomes?

100

Researchers study symptoms like pain, fatigue and nausea caused by this disease.

What is cancer?

100

These computer systems can help analyze large amounts of patient data.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

100

This MD Anderson department focuses on understanding and reducing cancer-related symptoms.

What is Symptom Research?

200

Unlike symptoms, these are objective findings like a fever or high blood pressure.

What are signs?

200

These tools help researchers understand how patients are feeling during treatment.

What are questionnaires?

200

One goal of Symptom Research is to reduce symptom severity and improve this.

What is quality of life?

200

AI stands for this.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

200

One major research area studies this common symptom experienced by cancer patients.

What is pain?

300

Symptoms are best measured using information provided directly by this person.

Who is the patient?

300

The FDA recognizes these patient reports as valuable in clinical trials.

What are patient-reported outcomes?

300

Researchers use data to identify patterns and predict these patient results.

What are outcomes?

300

Researchers use AI to help assess, analyze and predict patient ________.

What are outcomes?

300

Another research area focuses on treatment-induced neurotoxicities, which can affect the __________ system.

What is the nervous system?

400

Researchers often study symptoms because they affect this important aspect of a patient's life.

What is quality of life?

400

Symptom Research believes only this person truly knows how severe their symptoms are.

Who is the patient?

400

Symptom Research uses both laboratory studies and this type of research involving patients.

What is clinical research?

400

Patient-Centered Analytics combines AI with patient-reported outcomes to improve this.

What is cancer care?

400

The MDASI is a tool developed to measure symptoms and their impact on this.

What is daily living?

500

Researchers have found that symptoms often occur in these groups rather than alone.

What are symptom clusters?

500

Patient-reported outcomes can help researchers understand treatment tolerability and symptom burden.  This is the abbreviation commonly used for them.

What is PRO?

500

The department's research approach moves discoveries from the lab to patients and back again.  This is called a _________ approach.

What is translational research?

500

Data collected directly from patients can help support collaborative ___________ making.

What is decision-making?

500

The overall goal of the department is to reduce symptoms and toxicities while improving this aspect of patients' lives.

What is the Department of Symptom Research?