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Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer
Introduction: We compared the pre and post-treatment quality of life in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients and identified factors that could improve the quality of life in such patients. Methods: The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire C30 (EOR...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5453744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28589064 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1215 |
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author | Majid, Aamina Sayeed, Bushra Z Khan, Maryam Lakhani, Murk Saleem, Mariam M Rajani, Hina Ramesh, Priyanka Hashmani, Nauman Zia, Muneeba Abid, Husnain Majid, Bushra Jamali, Momal Murtaza, Kinza Kamal, Aneeqa Hussain, Maryam |
author_facet | Majid, Aamina Sayeed, Bushra Z Khan, Maryam Lakhani, Murk Saleem, Mariam M Rajani, Hina Ramesh, Priyanka Hashmani, Nauman Zia, Muneeba Abid, Husnain Majid, Bushra Jamali, Momal Murtaza, Kinza Kamal, Aneeqa Hussain, Maryam |
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description | Introduction: We compared the pre and post-treatment quality of life in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients and identified factors that could improve the quality of life in such patients. Methods: The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire C30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) questionnaire was administered to 84 patients’ pre and post-treatment. Patients who had non-metastatic, measurable, and untreated HNCs were invited, provided that their age was below 80 years. We did not discriminate based on treatment modality, stage of cancer, or co-morbidities. Patients who were mentally incapacitated, with secondary or recurrent HNC, distant metastasis, skin cancer, congenital anomaly of the head and neck, chronic illness, or any previous or current psychiatric illness were excluded from the study. A high mean score on the functional scale and a low score on symptom scale signify a better quality of life. We used the dependent t-test to compare pre and post-treatment scores. Results: We found no statistically significant differences in any variables, except the four symptom scales of diarrhoea, constipation, nausea/vomiting, and financial difficulty. All of these variables had increased mean scores with p values of < 0.001. Also, we found no statistical significance (p = 0.250) when comparing the pre-treatment (59.4 ± 18.3) and post-treatment (61.2 ± 16.2) scores for the global health status. Conclusion: We found no improvement in the quality of life in HNC patients despite intervention. In fact, diarrhoea, constipation, nausea/vomiting, and financial difficulty of these patients worsened post-treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-54537442017-06-06 Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer Majid, Aamina Sayeed, Bushra Z Khan, Maryam Lakhani, Murk Saleem, Mariam M Rajani, Hina Ramesh, Priyanka Hashmani, Nauman Zia, Muneeba Abid, Husnain Majid, Bushra Jamali, Momal Murtaza, Kinza Kamal, Aneeqa Hussain, Maryam Cureus Oncology Introduction: We compared the pre and post-treatment quality of life in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients and identified factors that could improve the quality of life in such patients. Methods: The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire C30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) questionnaire was administered to 84 patients’ pre and post-treatment. Patients who had non-metastatic, measurable, and untreated HNCs were invited, provided that their age was below 80 years. We did not discriminate based on treatment modality, stage of cancer, or co-morbidities. Patients who were mentally incapacitated, with secondary or recurrent HNC, distant metastasis, skin cancer, congenital anomaly of the head and neck, chronic illness, or any previous or current psychiatric illness were excluded from the study. A high mean score on the functional scale and a low score on symptom scale signify a better quality of life. We used the dependent t-test to compare pre and post-treatment scores. Results: We found no statistically significant differences in any variables, except the four symptom scales of diarrhoea, constipation, nausea/vomiting, and financial difficulty. All of these variables had increased mean scores with p values of < 0.001. Also, we found no statistical significance (p = 0.250) when comparing the pre-treatment (59.4 ± 18.3) and post-treatment (61.2 ± 16.2) scores for the global health status. Conclusion: We found no improvement in the quality of life in HNC patients despite intervention. In fact, diarrhoea, constipation, nausea/vomiting, and financial difficulty of these patients worsened post-treatment. Cureus 2017-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5453744/ /pubmed/28589064 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1215 Text en Copyright © 2017, Majid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Oncology Majid, Aamina Sayeed, Bushra Z Khan, Maryam Lakhani, Murk Saleem, Mariam M Rajani, Hina Ramesh, Priyanka Hashmani, Nauman Zia, Muneeba Abid, Husnain Majid, Bushra Jamali, Momal Murtaza, Kinza Kamal, Aneeqa Hussain, Maryam Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer |
title | Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer |
title_full | Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer |
title_fullStr | Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer |
title_short | Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer |
title_sort | assessment and improvement of quality of life in patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer |
topic | Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5453744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28589064 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1215 |
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