Psychosocial Distress After Radical Prostatectomy, Radical Cystectomy, or (partial) Nephrectomy - a Comprehensive Analysis of 4,290 German Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal J Cancer Surviv

Specialty Oncology

Date 2024 Jul 10

PMID 38985430

Authors

Henning Bahlburg

Patricia Rausch

Karl Heinrich Tully

Sebastian Berg

Joachim Noldus

Marius Cristian Butea-Bocu

Burkhard Beyer

Guido Muller

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Abstract

Aim: To evaluate and identify predictors of psychosocial distress (PD) in patients after surgical treatment for prostate cancer (PC), bladder cancer (BC), or kidney cancer (KC) during the COVID-19 pandemic in a large, multi-institutional cohort.

Material And Methods: Patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation (IR) after radical prostatectomy (RP), radical cystectomy (RC), or (partial) nephrectomy in one IR center in 2021 were included. PD was evaluated by the Questionnaire on Stress in Cancer Patients (QSC-R23) at the beginning (T1) and the end (T2) of IR. Regression analyses were performed to identify disease-specific predictors for high PD.

Results: A total of 4,290 patients (3,413 after RP, 563 after RC, 314 after (partial) nephrectomy) were included in this study. Median PD decreased significantly during IR across all tumor entities (each p < 0.001). The number of PC and BC patients suffering from high PD decreased significantly (each p < 0.001), but not in KC patients (p = 0.310). Younger age independently predicts high PD in all three malignancies, while additionally positive surgical margins (p = 0.016), ileal conduit (IC; p < 0.001), and nephrectomy (p = 0.032) independently predict high PD in PC, BC, and KC patients, respectively. During the Covid-19 pandemic the demand for individual psycho-oncologic counseling increased significantly in PC (p = 0.03) and KC (p = 0.001) patients.

Conclusion: Younger age independently predicts high PD in the three main urological malignancies. Positive surgical margins in PCa, IC in BCa, and nephrectomy in KC are disease-specific independent predictors for high PD in the early period after surgical treatment.

Implications For Cancer Survivors: Disease-specific predictors for high PD may help clinicians identify patients at risk and may guide timely referrals to psycho-oncologic counseling in the early period after uro-oncologic surgery.

Citing Articles

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