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From: Physical disability and psychological distress before and after a diagnosis of cancer: evidence on multiple cancer types from a large Australian cohort study, compared to people without a cancer diagnosis

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Change in physical functioning between surveys among cancer survivors (before to after cancer diagnosis) by type of cancer diagnosed, compared to change among people without cancer

NHL non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, SD standard deviation. Physical functioning limitations are based on Medical Outcomes Study Physical Functioning (MOS-PF) scores. Scores range from 0 to 100, where higher scores represent fewer limitations; a score of 60 to 89 represents moderate limitations and a score below 60 represents severe limitations. *Crude means of within participant changes in physical functioning (MOS-PF score at follow-up minus MOS-PF score at baseline). ^Difference between those diagnosed with cancer and those without cancer in change in scores, adjusted for age at follow-up, sex, education, residence, country of birth, months of follow-up and baseline physical functioning limitation score. Diagnosis codes grouped under “other cancer” and the corresponding numbers of participants are included in Additional file 1: Table S1.3. The number of participants with breast cancer includes eight males. They were excluded from subsequent analyses

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