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Health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second in females with a progressive increase in prevalence in industrialized countries. The loss of health due to the cancer and/or the consequence of the treatment may result in psychophysical, functio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3851259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24267735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-S2-S15 |
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author | Marventano, Stefano Forjaz, Maria Joao Grosso, Giuseppe Mistretta, Antonio Giorgianni, Gabriele Platania, Alessio Gangi, Santi Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio |
author_facet | Marventano, Stefano Forjaz, Maria Joao Grosso, Giuseppe Mistretta, Antonio Giorgianni, Gabriele Platania, Alessio Gangi, Santi Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio |
author_sort | Marventano, Stefano |
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description | BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second in females with a progressive increase in prevalence in industrialized countries. The loss of health due to the cancer and/or the consequence of the treatment may result in psychophysical, functional and social impairment; all of these affect health-related quality of life (QoL). DESCRIPTION: The most frequently CRC-specific QoL questionnaires is the FACT-C. QoL is not only important for the well-being of cancer patient but it also influences survival and response to therapy. Many studies investigated various determinants involved in the assessment of QoL in CRC, suggesting that symptoms, surgical procedures and the number of comorbidity significantly affected QoL. CONCLUSION: Despite that CRC patients have a relatively good QoL compared with the general population, a wide range of intervention could be undertaken to improve their QoL. The finding of this review may be useful for cancer clinicians in taking therapy and surveillance-related decisions. However, future research should be directed to large-scale prospective studies using well validated QoL instruments to facilitate comparison of results. |
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spelling | pubmed-38512592013-12-13 Health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art Marventano, Stefano Forjaz, Maria Joao Grosso, Giuseppe Mistretta, Antonio Giorgianni, Gabriele Platania, Alessio Gangi, Santi Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio BMC Surg Research Article BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second in females with a progressive increase in prevalence in industrialized countries. The loss of health due to the cancer and/or the consequence of the treatment may result in psychophysical, functional and social impairment; all of these affect health-related quality of life (QoL). DESCRIPTION: The most frequently CRC-specific QoL questionnaires is the FACT-C. QoL is not only important for the well-being of cancer patient but it also influences survival and response to therapy. Many studies investigated various determinants involved in the assessment of QoL in CRC, suggesting that symptoms, surgical procedures and the number of comorbidity significantly affected QoL. CONCLUSION: Despite that CRC patients have a relatively good QoL compared with the general population, a wide range of intervention could be undertaken to improve their QoL. The finding of this review may be useful for cancer clinicians in taking therapy and surveillance-related decisions. However, future research should be directed to large-scale prospective studies using well validated QoL instruments to facilitate comparison of results. BioMed Central 2013-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3851259/ /pubmed/24267735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-S2-S15 Text en Copyright © 2013 Marventano et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Marventano, Stefano Forjaz, Maria Joao Grosso, Giuseppe Mistretta, Antonio Giorgianni, Gabriele Platania, Alessio Gangi, Santi Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio Health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art |
title | Health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art |
title_full | Health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art |
title_fullStr | Health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art |
title_full_unstemmed | Health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art |
title_short | Health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art |
title_sort | health related quality of life in colorectal cancer patients: state of the art |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3851259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24267735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-S2-S15 |
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