The Impact of Adjuvant Chemotherapy on Health-Related Quality of Life (HR-QoL), A Prospective Multicenter Measurement Study_ Crimson Publishers

The Impact of Adjuvant Chemotherapy on Health-Related Quality of Life (HR-QoL), A Prospective Multicenter Measurement Study by Antoine Abi Abboud* in Gastroenterology Medicine & Research_ Gastroenterology Open Access Journals

Introduction
Chemotherapy is one of the most commonly employed cancer treatments since its use provides a strong evidence for disease-free survival as well as overall survival for several cancer types. This type of treatment is associated with detrimental side effects that are difficult to tolerate and that impact the quality of life (QOL) of patients on different levels. As more patients undergo adjuvant chemotherapy, there has been a growing interest in investigating its impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL). To our knowledge, most published literature focuses on HRQOL at specific time points during chemotherapy and only limited data describes the dynamics of HRQOL starting before treatment, during the complete duration and after completion of chemotherapy.

Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of adjuvant chemotherapy on a patient’s quality of life before the start, half-way through, at the end and 3 months after the end of chemotherapy and to examine whether individual differences in quality of life among adjuvant chemotherapy patients could be accounted for by selected demographic and medical characteristics

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