ECOG Score

ECOG SCORE
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status

Patient name		age
Date

Patient Performance Status

0 - Asymptomatic: Fully active, able to carry on all pre-disease activities without restriction. 1 - Symptomatic but completely ambulatory: Restricted in physically strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of a light or sedentary nature. For example, light housework, office work. 2 - Symptomatic. < 50% in bed during the day: Ambulatory and capable of all self care but unable to carry out any work activities. Up and about more than 50% of waking hours. 3 - Symptomatic > 50% in bed, but not bedbound: Capable of only limited self-care, confined to bed or chair 50% or more of waking hours 4 - Bedbound: Completely disabled. Cannot carry on any self-care. Totally confined to bed or chair. 5 - Death


ECOG Performance Status:

The ECOG Performance Status is a simple measure of functional status.

It has scores ranging from 0 to 5, and these correlate with scores from the Karnofsky Scale's 0-100 scores.

It is commonly used as a prognostic tool, as a selection criterion for cancer research, and to help determine treatment.

Performance status is highly correlated with survival, need for services, and may help predict ability to tolerate therapies.

The ECOG Score was developed by Martin M. Oken, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota and the Medical Director of Research at the Hubert H. Humphrey Cancer Center. He was formerly a chairman of the Hematology, Myeloma and Lymphoma Committees of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and Member of the steering Committee for the PLCO (Prostate, Lung, Colon and Ovary Screening Project). His research focuses mainly on treatment and outcomes in patients with leukemia and lymphoma.

Reference: Oken MM, Creech RH, Tormey DC, et al. Toxicity and response criteria of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Am. J. Clin. Oncol. 1982; 5 (6): 649â??55. doi:10.1097/00000421-198212000-00014.PMID 7165009.

Adapted from MDcalc.com

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