PMID: 15375514Sep 18, 2004Paper

Health-related quality of life in patients with testicular cancer: a comparative analysis according to therapeutic modalities

Oncology Reports
Hideaki MiyakeIsao Hara

Abstract

Investigating health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in testicular cancer patients has become important, because of an increasing number of young survivors with recent advance of multimodal therapy. The objective of this study was to compare the HRQoL in patients with advanced testicular cancer according to the types of treatment they received. Among 130 patients included in this study, 40 underwent surveillance monitoring (group A), 64 received cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy (group B), and 26 underwent infradiaphragmatic radiotherapy (group C). HRQoL in these 3 groups were evaluated using the SF-36 survey containing 36 questions that assess 8 aspects, including physical functioning, role-physical functioning, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, role-emotional functioning and mental health. Furthermore, HRQoL in group B were analyzed according to the experience with retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) or high-dose chemotherapy with peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT). The follow-up period of the chemotherapy group was significantly shorter than that of the remaining 2 groups; however, scale scores were not affected by the duration of follow-up in these 3 groups. There we...Continue Reading

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