Brucker et al. / FACT-G NORMATIVE DATA GENERAL POPULATION AND CANCER PATIENT NORMS FOR THE FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY– GENERAL (FACT-G)

Given the number of new cancer cases diag-nosed each year and the increases in survival rates, the importance of having a clinically useful health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instrument has increased. The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–General (FACT-G) is one such instrument that has been used worldwide to assess HRQOL. Previ-ously, the use of the FACT-G had been limited because of a lack of published normative data. Normative data are useful for consumers to place their results in an appropriate context by comparing their scores of individuals or group of individuals to a reference group. Here, we present normative data for the FACT-G for two reference groups: (a) a sam-ple of the general U.S. adult population and (b) a large, heterogeneous sample of adult patients with cancer. In addition, we dem-onstrate various uses of the normative data