"The first ones now, will later be last": understanding the importance of historical context when reading ESMO-MCBS scores

Affiliations

• ¹ Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Service, Department of Medical Oncology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: chernyn@netvision.net.il.
• ² Laboratory of Biostatistics, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Frontier Science Foundation-Hellas, Athens, Greece.
• ³ ESMO Head Office, Lugano, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Jules Bordet Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁵ Frontier Science Foundation-Hellas, Athens, Greece.
• ⁶ Department of Oncology, Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The netherlands.