QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER CANCER - HOW THE EXTENT OF IMPAIRMENT IS INFLUENCED BY PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS

Quality of life has an important place in the future of patients with breast cancer. The objective of this study is to assess the evolution of the patient’s quality of life with breast cancer in Morocco after a year of follow-up.

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Objectives and method: A generic (Short Form-12; SF-12) and a disease-specific questionnaire(Seattle Angina Questionnaire; SAQ) were tested for their potential to predict health needs inpatients with acute coronary disease. A wide range of healthcare needs were determined using aquestionnaire[r]

The development of both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer (LC) is influenced by smoking related chronic pulmonary inflammation caused by an excessive innate immune response to smoke exposure.

Neo-adjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery is the standard treatment with curative intent for oesophageal cancer patients, with 5-year overall survival rates up to 50 %. However, patients’ quality of life is severely compromised by oesophagectomy, and eventually many patients die due to meta[r]

Overweight and weight gain throughout adult life have been associated with increased risk of breast cancer after the menopause. However the role of body weight at a young age and of the timing of weight gain over the lifetime in postmenopausal breast cancer is not well documented.

Deterioration in bone health is one of the presenting symptoms of Multiple Myeloma (MM), a cancer of plasma cells. As a consequence of this condition, patients suffer bone pain and bone damage and report cancer-related fatigue, resulting in deterioration in their quality of life.

Cachexia is a multi-factorial, systemic syndrome that especially affects patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, and leads to reduced treatment response, survival and quality of life. The most important clinical feature of cachexia is the excessive wasting of skeletal muscle mass.

Platinum-based chemotherapy is emerging as the first line of treatment for castration resistant prostate cancer. Among the family of platinum (IV)-based compounds, a member known as CPA-7 inhibits the growth of multiple cancer cell lines. However, how and to what extent CPA-7 elicits its anti-prosta[r]

Ampullary cancer is a relatively rare form of cancer and usually treated by pancreatoduodenectomy, followed by adjuvant therapy. The intestinal subtype is associated with markedly improved prognosis after resection.

Approximately one third of cancer survivors in the United Kingdom face ongoing and debilitating psychological and physical symptoms related to poor quality of life. Very little is known about current post-cancer treatment services.

with associated pelvic floor dyssynergia can be treated initially with biofeedback therapy followed by surgery with similar improvement in outcomes such as median stool number per day, spontaneous stools, laxative use, and quality of life.(107)Patients with slow-transit c[r]

Healthcare resource utilization in breast cancer varies by disease characteristics and treatment choices. However, lack of clarity in guidelines can result in varied interpretation and heterogeneous treatment management and costs. In Europe, the extent of this variability is unclear. Therefore, eval[r]

Identification of patient-related factors associated with Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and Quality of Life (QoL) at the start of treatment may identify patients who are prone to a decrease in HRQoL and/or QoL resulting from chemotherapy.

UK and many other European countries for large scalehealth measurement and monitoring [12,19]. For ease ofinterpretation, scores are standardized to populationnorms, with the mean score set at 50 (SD = 10): higherscores indicate better health. The SF-12 has been shown tohave good valid[r]

The use of flaps in vulvar cancer-related reconstruction has been increasing, but few studies have evaluated the outcome and quality of life of patients after this surgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of vulvar reconstruction using musculocutaneous/skin flaps in patients w[r]

Botrytis cinerea Pers).Cooling and StorageGrapes are vulnerable to the drying effect of air because of theirrelatively large surface-to-volume ratio, especially that of the stems.Stem condition is an important quality factor and an excellent indicator[r]

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Paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS) is a heterogeneous group of disorders affecting any part of the nervous system, in a patient affected by cancer. PNS is estimated to occur in 0.01 to 8 % of cancer patients, with higher incidence in those with small cell lung cancer, gynecological tumours o[r]

whichever was longer), and at the TOC visit.Clinical evaluation involved an assessment of five UTIsymptoms (dysuria, frequency, urgency, suprapubic pain,gross haematuria) rated 'none', 'mild', 'moderate', or'severe', and scored 0–3. The clinical evaluations tookplace at visit 1, at any[r]