Health-related Quality of Life Among Disease-free Stomach Cancer Survivors in Korea

Overview

Journal Qual Life Res

Specialties Pharmacology
Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 2006 Oct 13

PMID 17036253

Citations 23

Authors

Jae-Moon Bae

Sung Kim

Young-Woo Kim

Keun Won Ryu

Jun Ho Lee

Jae-Hyung Noh

Tae-Sung Sohn

Seong-Kweon Hong

Sang Min Park

Chang Hoon You

Jung Hee Kim

Myung Kyung Lee

Young Ho Yun

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Abstract

Previous studies about the quality of life (QOL) in stomach cancer survivors focused on selected clinical parameters and did not consider the broader implications for overall health and QOL. We evaluated the impact of demographic and treatment-related factors on the QOL of stomach cancer survivors. We asked 391 stage I-III stomach cancer survivors who had been disease-free for at least 1 year after surgery to complete a demographic questionnaire, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30 questionnaire, and its stomach module, QLQ-STO22.Survivors undergoing total gastrectomy reported greater eating restrictions than those undergoing subtotal gastrectomy. Receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy did not significantly affect any QLQ-C30 or QLQ-STO22 scores. Role and emotional functioning improved with increasing age, and stomach-specific symptoms (pain, eating restrictions, and anxiety) lessened. Compared with female survivors, male survivors had better physical and role functioning. Smoking status was also a significant negative predictor of physical functioning and anxiety. Comorbidities and selected demographic characteristics had a greater effect than type of treatment on the QOL of post-operative stomach cancer patients.

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