Chemotherapy reduces long-term quality of life in recurrence-free colon cancer survivors (LaTE study)-a nationwide inverse probability of treatment-weighted registry-based cohort study and survey.
Yasir G MalikJūratė Šaltytė BenthHanne M HamreArne E FaerdenDejan IgnjatovicJohannes Kurt SchultzPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2023)
Long-term QoL was significantly lower in patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy than in patients who did not. Neurotoxicity was closely related to reduced QoL in these patients. The low response rate limits the generalizability of the results.