Assessing quality of life of patients after esophageal cancer surgery
- Author:
Huan Duc Pham
;
Quyet Tien Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
esophageal cancer;
quality of life;
radical surgery
- MeSH:
Esophageal Neoplasms/ surgery;
Quality of Life;
- From:Journal of Surgery
2007;4(57):8-11
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Background: Esophageal cancer is a disease with poor prognosis and the treatment is very difficult, requiring a combination of methods (surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy), in which surgery remains the most important method. However, quality of life of patients was still less interested in the studies. Objectives: to evaluate the quality of life of patients after esophageal cancer surgery in the Department of Digestive Surgery \ufffd?Viet Duc Hospital from 1994 to 2004. Subjectives and Method: a prospective study was conducted on 164 patients with esophageal cancer surgery at Viet Duc Hospital from January 1994 to June 2004. Results: mortality of the surgery was 5%, and rate of complications was 32.9%. 146 patients were closely followed up the quality of life after the surgery, showed: postoperative quality of life was good and moderate (80.1%). Quality of life of patients with radical surgery were better than that in patients without radical surgery, there was statistically significant with p <0.05. Mean postoperative survival time was 24.2 \xb1 2.3 months. Conclussions: surgery of esophageal cancer improved quality of life of patients. Radical features of surgery significantly influenced the quality of life of patients after surgery.
