Symptom burden as a driver of decisional regret in long-term oropharyngeal carcinoma survivors.
Ryan P GoepfertClifton David FullerG Brandon GunnEhab Y HannaJan S LewinJhankruti S ZaveriRachel M HubbardMartha P BarrowKatherine A HutchesonPublished in: Head & neck (2017)
OPC survivors provide a robust description of their long-term outcomes with 15.5% expressing "moderate to high" regret that was significantly associated with late symptom burden and multimodality treatment. Difficulty swallowing was the strongest driver of decisional regret.