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Table 4 Pearson Correlations between the QLQ-C30 and FACT-G sub-scales

	QLQ-C30	PF	RF	EF	CF	SF
FACT-G	0.629	0.522	0.598	0.658	0.394	0.542
PWB	0.553	0.551	0.637	0.504	0.443	0.545
SWB	0.193^†	0.128^†	0.073^†	0.187^†	0.164^†	0.130^†
EWB	0.335	0.188^†	0.343	0.761	0.201^†	0.315
FWB	0.686	0.579	0.607	0.460	0.321	0.524

Notes: QLQ-C30 = EORTC-QLQ-C30 global score; PF = Physical functioning; RF = Role functioning;
EF = Emotional functioning; CF = Cognitive functioning; SF = Social functioning.
FACT-G = FACT-G global score; PWB = Physical well-being; SWB = Social well-being;
EWB = Emotional well being; FWB = Functional well-being
All correlations are significant at 0.05 level after Bonferroni corrections applied, except for ^†

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