The early predictive value of frailty for health-related quality of life among elderly patients with cancer receiving curative chemotherapy

• Yi-Cheng Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Cheng Hu, Shih-Ying Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Ching Kuo Institute of Management and Health, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Shih-Ying Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Cheng Hu, Shih-Ying Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Wen-Chi Chou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Hematology-Oncology and Cancer Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkuo Branch, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Jen-Shi Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Hematology-Oncology and Cancer Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkuo Branch, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9756-3974

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• Li-Chueh Weng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkuo Branch, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Pei-Kwei Tsay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health and Center of Biostatistics, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children’s Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Woung-Ru Tang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wtang@mail.cgu.edu.tw

  Affiliations School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkuo Branch, Taoyuan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2960-1841

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