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Hand Foot Syndrome Has the Strongest Impact on QOL in Skin Toxicities of Chemotherapy

Background: Chemotherapy often results in dermatologic toxicities, which decrease quality of life (QOL) of cancer patients. These adverse skin reactions sometimes happen simultaneously. Though previous reports have demonstrated that skin reactions influence QOL, those reports were focused on only on...

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Autores principales: Urakawa, Ryuta, Tarutani, Masahito, Kubota, Kazumi, Uejima, Etsuko
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ivyspring International Publisher 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6775515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31598155
http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/jca.31059
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author Urakawa, Ryuta
Tarutani, Masahito
Kubota, Kazumi
Uejima, Etsuko
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Tarutani, Masahito
Kubota, Kazumi
Uejima, Etsuko
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description Background: Chemotherapy often results in dermatologic toxicities, which decrease quality of life (QOL) of cancer patients. These adverse skin reactions sometimes happen simultaneously. Though previous reports have demonstrated that skin reactions influence QOL, those reports were focused on only one kind of skin toxicity or on the most serious skin toxicity. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the contribution of each skin toxicity to QOL. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study at Kinki Central Hospital. Patients were enrolled who underwent skin toxic chemotherapy from April 1 to June 30, 2017. DLQI and Skindex29 were used to grade the QOL of patients. Also, the severity of skin toxicities was evaluated based on National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0 (NCI-CTCAE ver4.0). We investigated how QOL changed with patient demographic and clinical characteristics, the worst skin toxicity grade, and each skin toxicity using statistical analyses. Results: No significant differences were detected between QOL scores (total score of DLQI, emotions domain, symptoms domain, functioning domain and total score of Skindex29) and patient demographic and clinical characteristics (P values were 0.155, 0.086, 0.052, 0.312 and 0.114, respectively). There were statistically significant QOL differences among the grades of the worst skin toxicity (P values were <0.001). Xerosis, paronycia, pigmentation, and hand foot syndrome showed statistically significant associations with some QOL domains analyzed by multiple logistic regression analyses adjusted by demographic characteristics. When adjusted by both demographic characteristics and other skin toxicities, three of xerosis, paronycia, and pigmentation showed no statistically significant associations, but hand foot syndrome showed statistically significant associations in all subdomains and total score of Skindex29 (P values were <0.05). Conclusions: Hand foot syndrome was a stronger factor in decreasing QOL than xerosis, paronychia, pigmentation, or rash. Therefore, especially in hand foot syndrome, prevention, early detection, and daily medical care are necessary to maintain QOL.
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spelling pubmed-67755152019-10-09 Hand Foot Syndrome Has the Strongest Impact on QOL in Skin Toxicities of Chemotherapy Urakawa, Ryuta Tarutani, Masahito Kubota, Kazumi Uejima, Etsuko J Cancer Research Paper Background: Chemotherapy often results in dermatologic toxicities, which decrease quality of life (QOL) of cancer patients. These adverse skin reactions sometimes happen simultaneously. Though previous reports have demonstrated that skin reactions influence QOL, those reports were focused on only one kind of skin toxicity or on the most serious skin toxicity. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the contribution of each skin toxicity to QOL. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study at Kinki Central Hospital. Patients were enrolled who underwent skin toxic chemotherapy from April 1 to June 30, 2017. DLQI and Skindex29 were used to grade the QOL of patients. Also, the severity of skin toxicities was evaluated based on National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0 (NCI-CTCAE ver4.0). We investigated how QOL changed with patient demographic and clinical characteristics, the worst skin toxicity grade, and each skin toxicity using statistical analyses. Results: No significant differences were detected between QOL scores (total score of DLQI, emotions domain, symptoms domain, functioning domain and total score of Skindex29) and patient demographic and clinical characteristics (P values were 0.155, 0.086, 0.052, 0.312 and 0.114, respectively). There were statistically significant QOL differences among the grades of the worst skin toxicity (P values were <0.001). Xerosis, paronycia, pigmentation, and hand foot syndrome showed statistically significant associations with some QOL domains analyzed by multiple logistic regression analyses adjusted by demographic characteristics. When adjusted by both demographic characteristics and other skin toxicities, three of xerosis, paronycia, and pigmentation showed no statistically significant associations, but hand foot syndrome showed statistically significant associations in all subdomains and total score of Skindex29 (P values were <0.05). Conclusions: Hand foot syndrome was a stronger factor in decreasing QOL than xerosis, paronychia, pigmentation, or rash. Therefore, especially in hand foot syndrome, prevention, early detection, and daily medical care are necessary to maintain QOL. Ivyspring International Publisher 2019-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6775515/ /pubmed/31598155 http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/jca.31059 Text en © The author(s) This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See http://ivyspring.com/terms for full terms and conditions.
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Urakawa, Ryuta
Tarutani, Masahito
Kubota, Kazumi
Uejima, Etsuko
Hand Foot Syndrome Has the Strongest Impact on QOL in Skin Toxicities of Chemotherapy
title Hand Foot Syndrome Has the Strongest Impact on QOL in Skin Toxicities of Chemotherapy
title_full Hand Foot Syndrome Has the Strongest Impact on QOL in Skin Toxicities of Chemotherapy
title_fullStr Hand Foot Syndrome Has the Strongest Impact on QOL in Skin Toxicities of Chemotherapy
title_full_unstemmed Hand Foot Syndrome Has the Strongest Impact on QOL in Skin Toxicities of Chemotherapy
title_short Hand Foot Syndrome Has the Strongest Impact on QOL in Skin Toxicities of Chemotherapy
title_sort hand foot syndrome has the strongest impact on qol in skin toxicities of chemotherapy
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6775515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31598155
http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/jca.31059
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