PURPOSE Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy in the world. Beta glucan may improve quality of life in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The aim of this trial was to determine the effect of Beta glucan on quality of life in women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. METHODS This study was conducted on 30 women with breast carcinoma. The eligible participants were ran...

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the effect taste changes on quality life in cancer patients taking chemotherapy Material and Methods: This descriptive was conducted between January 2020 September with receiving inpatient outpatient unit a university hospital. sample consisted 466 who met inclusion criteria received same treatment at Data were collected using Introductory Information ...

OBJECTIVE compare quality of life (QoL) and sexual functioning between sexually active ovarian cancer survivors and healthy women. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed in 103 successfully treated ovarian cancer survivors and 220 healthy women. All women had engaged in sexual activity within the previous 3 months, and ovarian cancer survivors were under surveillance after primary trea...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in quality of life scores and their association with therapy and survival in unselected elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia. DESIGN AND METHODS From February 2003 to February 2007, 113 patients aged more than 60 years with de novo acute myeloid leukemia were enrolled in a prospective observational study. Two different quality o...

Objective The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT) on patients' quality of life (QoL) and to validate a tool to quantify problems associated with TURBT in a Danish population. Materials and methods A prospective study was carried out using a combination of questionnaires and interviews. The study included 165 consecutive patients under...

Background: Serious adverse events (SAEs) and subject replacements occur frequently in phase 1 oncology clinical trials. Whether baseline quality-of-life (QOL) or social support can predict risk for SAEs or subject replacement among these patients is not known. Methods: Between 2011-2013, 92 patients undergoing screening for enrollment into one of 22 phase 1 solid tumor clinical trials at Roswe...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to clarify whether more extensive surgical lymph node resection during oesophageal cancer surgery influences patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL). SETTING This was a nationwide Swedish population-based study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 616 patients who underwent curatively intended oesophageal cancer surgery in 2001-2005 were followed up at 6...

INTRODUCTION The assessment of risk of recurrence and progression of bladder cancer (BC) is still rather difficult. We decided to check the rates of the changes mentioned above in the group of the Polish patients after a year-long observation and next to compare them with the results calculated in the European Organisation of Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) risk tables. METHODS The t...

BACKGROUND Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) has been proposed for staging of N0 neck in oral/oropharyngeal carcinomas. It is claimed that SNB may be superior to selective neck dissection (SND) with respect to quality of life (QOL) and postoperative morbidity. METHODS Twenty-four patients after SNB and 25 patients after SND (levels I-III) were enrolled. QOL and psychosocial variables were assessed b...

BACKGROUND Because cancer is now the first and second leading causes of death in both of urban and suburban area in China, there are increasing demands for measurement tools to assess quality of life in Chinese cancer patients. The objective of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the standard Chinese version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer...