Javier Herce1, Angel Rollón, Juan Polo. 1. Servicio de Cirugía Oral y Maxilofacial-Estomatología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain. javiherce@yahoo.es
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Health-related quality of life data are becoming an important supplement to information pertaining to treatment outcome for cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the health-related quality of life of patients undergoing primary surgery for oral squamous cell carcinoma 5 years or more after treatment compared with Spanish general populations norms. PATIENTS AND METHOD: Twenty-three oral cancer patients with cancer-free survival after surgery of > 5 years were enrolled. Health-related quality of life was assessed with one standardized questionnaire: the SF-36 Health Survey (Short Form 36). Altogether 23 oral cancer patients (mean age: 55.3 years; 82% male) were included 5 years after surgery. RESULTS: The oral cancer patients' SF-36 scores did not differ significantly from those of an age- and sex-matched sample from the Spanish normative population, except role-mental and social functioning domains. The patients had better significant results than population norms (Wilcoxon test, p < 0.05) in vitality and health perceptions domains. CONCLUSIONS: These results provided patient-reported evidence that oral cancer survivors lived with a similar health-related quality of life compared with the general Spanish population. Recruitment is ongoing and a larger cohort in the future will allow further analysis of the trends demonstrated in this cohort.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Health-related quality of life data are becoming an important supplement to information pertaining to treatment outcome for cancerpatients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the health-related quality of life of patients undergoing primary surgery for oral squamous cell carcinoma 5 years or more after treatment compared with Spanish general populations norms. PATIENTS AND METHOD: Twenty-three oral cancerpatients with cancer-free survival after surgery of > 5 years were enrolled. Health-related quality of life was assessed with one standardized questionnaire: the SF-36 Health Survey (Short Form 36). Altogether 23 oral cancerpatients (mean age: 55.3 years; 82% male) were included 5 years after surgery. RESULTS: The oral cancerpatients' SF-36 scores did not differ significantly from those of an age- and sex-matched sample from the Spanish normative population, except role-mental and social functioning domains. The patients had better significant results than population norms (Wilcoxon test, p < 0.05) in vitality and health perceptions domains. CONCLUSIONS: These results provided patient-reported evidence that oral cancer survivors lived with a similar health-related quality of life compared with the general Spanish population. Recruitment is ongoing and a larger cohort in the future will allow further analysis of the trends demonstrated in this cohort.
Authors: Rocío Barrios; Manuel Bravo; Jose Antonio Gil-Montoya; Ildefonso Martínez-Lara; Blas García-Medina; Georgios Tsakos Journal: Health Qual Life Outcomes Date: 2015-01-23 Impact factor: 3.186