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Quality-of-Life Outcomes for Patients Taking Opioids and Psychotropic Medications Before Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy.

Ian SolskyAna PatelCristian D ValenzuelaGregory RussellKathleen PerryKatie DuckworthKonstantinos I VotanopoulosPerry ShenEdward A Levine
Published in: Annals of surgical oncology (2023)
Despite worse baseline QoL, patients who took opioids/psychotropic medications had QoL scores 1 year postoperatively similar to the scores of those who did not except in the emotional domains. These data point to the potential utility of a timed psychosocial intervention to enhance emotional adaptation and further support the role of CRS-HIPEC in improving QoL.
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