Introduction. Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the most common cancers among men over 50. Nowadays in Ukraine, number new cases PC tends to increase according statistics.
 Objectives. The aim study identify main problems life quality patients with (C61) optimize medical care for them.
 Methods. aspects are studied by means EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-PR25 questionnaires.
 Results. In as ...

Analyser la durée de vie l’implant phonatoire et ses complications, l’efficacité réhabilitation vocale ainsi que son impact sur QdV. Une étude observationnelle monocentrique incluait les patients traités pour un carcinome épidermoïde du larynx ou l’hypopharynx par (pharyngo)-laryngectomie totale entre 2010 2015. Pour chaque patient, éléments suivants étaient recueillis : temps maximal phonation...

Background: A key component to monitoring and investigating patient QOL is through patient reported health related quality of life (HRQOL) outcome measures. Many instruments have been used to assess HRQOL in bladder cancer and each instrument varies in its development, validation, the context of its usage in the literature and its applicability to certain disease states. Objective: In this revi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate changes of quality of life (QOL) of patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction (AEG) after gastric tube anastomosis. METHODS From January 2009 to December 2011, eighty-seven patients with Types II and III AEG were selected for gastric tube reconstruction after proximal gastrectomy. The QOL of the patients was assessed using the Chinese versions of th...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of response shift (RS) in longitudinal health-related quality of life (HRQoL) studies, reflecting patient adaptation to disease, has already been demonstrated. Several methods have been developed to detect the three different types of response shift (RS), i.e. recalibration RS, 2) reprioritization RS, and 3) reconceptualization RS. We investigated two complementary met...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To examine changes in health-related quality of life among oropharyngeal cancer patients by stages and across treatment types among advanced cancer patients. STUDY DESIGN Individual prospective cohort study. METHODS All newly diagnosed patients with oropharyngeal cancer treated with curative intent were routinely assessed. The European Organization for Research and Tre...