Target group | Disease condition definition | Examples | |
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A) | Patients in active treatment | Patients undergoing or having recently completed: • Curative treatment for early-stage cancers • Non-curative treatment for advanced/metastatic cancers, including disease controlling/life prolonging tumour-directed treatment (e.g., patients with metastatic disease receiving chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or targeted agents) | • Stage 1–2 breast cancer during or up to 3 months following radiotherapy, surgery, or systemic treatments • Stage 4 breast cancer on 1st line chemotherapy • Lung cancer on immunotherapy |
B) | Survivors | Patients who are disease-free without evidence of active cancer, and at least one year off active treatment (except for long-term adjuvant hormonotherapy) | • Breast cancer treated with surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy three years ago and on 10 years of hormonal treatment |
C) | Patients in palliative care | Patients with advanced cancers who meet at least one of the following criteria: • Projected prognosis < 12 months and ECOG* ≥ 2 • Referred to a specialist palliative care team for symptom control • Receiving non-curative systemic treatment or radiotherapy purely for symptom control | • Patients with castrate-resistant prostate cancer, progressed through systemic treatment options referred for radiotherapy for bone pain • Metastatic breast cancer patient on 5th-line systemic treatment |