BACKGROUND The rectum cancer is associated with high rates of complications and morbidities with great impact on the lives of affected individuals. AIM To evaluate quality of life, pain, anxiety and depression in patients treated for medium and lower rectum cancer, submitted to surgical intervention. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study. Eighty-eight records of patients with medium a...

INTRODUCTION Radiotherapy (RT) in combination with chemotherapy is a standard of care for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The RT is associated with side effects, which impact on quality of life (QoL). Thus, the aim of this prospective longitudinal study was to investigate the impact of RT on the QoL of patients with HNSCC during RT. MATERIAL AND METHODS From Septe...

AIM OF THE STUDY The evaluation of quality of life during image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) in patients with prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study consisted of 180 prostate cancer patients treated with radical radiotherapy (IGRT). The patients were irradiated using conformal or dynamic techniques with 2 Gy fractionation doses to a total dose of 76 Gy. Patients in the high-risk group...

Purpose This study evaluated the changes in nutritional status based on quality of life (QoL) item-level analysis to determine whether individual QoL responses might facilitate personal clinical impact. Materials and Methods This study retrospectively evaluated QoL data obtained by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 (QL...

PurposeRadiation therapy is an effective but burdensome treatment for head and neck cancer (HNC). We aimed to characterize the severity time pattern of patient-reported symptoms quality life in a large cohort patients with HNC treated definitive radiation therapy, or without systemic treatment.Methods MaterialsA total 859 between 2007 2017 prospectively completed European Organization Research ...

BACKGROUND This study presents a retrospective evaluation of patient, disease, and treatment features predicting long-term survival and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients who underwent surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS Between January 2000 and June 2009, 586 patients underwent surgery at the Helsinki University Hospital. The 276 patients still alive in...

BACKGROUND Understanding of the physical, functional and psychosocial health problems and needs of cancer survivors requires cross-national and cross-cultural standardization of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires that capture the full range of issues relevant to cancer survivors. To our knowledge, only one study has investigated in a comprehensive way whether a questionnaire ...