Karnofsky Performance Status
"Karnofsky Performance Status" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A performance measure for rating the ability of a person to perform usual activities, evaluating a patient's progress after a therapeutic procedure, and determining a patient's suitability for therapy. It is used most commonly in the prognosis of cancer therapy, usually after chemotherapy and customarily administered before and after therapy. It was named for Dr. David A. Karnofsky, an American specialist in cancer chemotherapy.
| Descriptor ID |
D017567
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.980.438.475.456.500.500 N05.715.360.300.800.438.375.364.500.500 N06.850.520.308.980.438.475.364.500.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Karnofsky Performance Status- Karnofsky Performance Status
- Performance Status, Karnofsky
- Status, Karnofsky Performance
- Karnofsky Performance Status Scale
- Karnofsky Scale
- Scale, Karnofsky
- Karnofsky Index
- Index, Karnofsky
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Karnofsky Performance Status" by people in Profiles.
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Patient Functional Status at Transplant and Its Impact on Posttransplant Survival of Adult Deceased-donor Kidney Recipients. Transplantation. 2019 05; 103(5):1051-1063.
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Long-term follow-up of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem-cell transplantation and response-adapted whole-brain radiotherapy for newly diagnosed primary CNS lymphoma: results of the multicenter Ostdeutsche Studiengruppe Hamatologie und Onkologie OSHO-53 phase II study. Ann Oncol. 2012 Jul; 23(7):1809-12.
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Efficacy of gamma knife radiosurgery for small-volume recurrent malignant gliomas after initial radical resection. World Neurosurg. 2011 Jul-Aug; 76(1-2):128-40; discussion 61-2.
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Safety and feasibility of convection-enhanced delivery of Cotara for the treatment of malignant glioma: initial experience in 51 patients. Neurosurgery. 2005 Jun; 56(6):1243-52; discussion 1252-3.