The relationship between quality of life (EORTC QLQ-C30) and survival in patients with gastro-oesophageal cancer

It remains unclear whether any aspect of quality of life has a role in predicting survival in an unselected cohort of patients with gastro-oesophageal cancer. Therefore the aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between quality of life (EORTC QLQ-C30), clinico-pathological characte...

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Published in:British journal of cancer 2008-03, Vol.98 (5), p.888-893
Main Authors: McKernan, M, McMillan, D C, Anderson, J R, Angerson, W J, Stuart, R C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
C-Reactive Protein - analysis
Cancer Research
Clinical Study
Drug Resistance
Dysphagia
Epidemiology
Esophageal cancer
Esophageal Neoplasms - mortality
Esophageal Neoplasms - pathology
Esophageal Neoplasms - psychology
Esophagus
Female
Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen
Humans
Male
Medical research
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Molecular Medicine
Multivariate Analysis
Neoplasm Staging
Oncology
Patients
Quality of Life
Questionnaires
Stomach Neoplasms - mortality
Stomach Neoplasms - pathology
Stomach Neoplasms - psychology
Surgery
Survival analysis
Tumors
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Summary:It remains unclear whether any aspect of quality of life has a role in predicting survival in an unselected cohort of patients with gastro-oesophageal cancer. Therefore the aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between quality of life (EORTC QLQ-C30), clinico-pathological characteristics and survival in patients with gastro-oesophageal cancer. Patients presenting with gastric or oesophageal cancer, staged using the UICC tumour node metastasis (TNM) classification and who received either potentially curative surgery or palliative treatment between November 1997 and December 2002 ( n =152) participated in a quality of life study, using the EORTC QLQ-C30 core questionnaire. On univariate analysis, age ( P
ISSN:0007-0920
1532-1827
DOI:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604248