Health-related quality of life in rectal cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiation with delayed surgery versus short-course radiotherapy with immediate surgery: a propensity score-matched cohort study.
Alice M CouwenbergJohannes P M BurbachMartijn P W IntvenEsther C J ConstenAnandi H W SchiphorstAnke B SmitsNiels A T WijffelsJoost T HeikensMiriam KoopmanWilhelmina M U van GrevensteinHelena M VerkooijenPublished in: Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) (2019)
In rectal cancer patients, CRT-DS may induce a stronger decline in short-term QOL than SCRT-IS. From 12 months onwards, QOL domains, symptoms and sexual interest in male patients were comparable between the groups. However, emotional functioning remained higher after SCRT-IS than after CRT-DS.
Keyphrases
- rectal cancer
- locally advanced
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- patients undergoing
- newly diagnosed
- minimally invasive
- prognostic factors
- coronary artery bypass
- heart failure
- radiation therapy
- lymph node
- mental health
- depressive symptoms
- coronary artery disease
- left ventricular
- physical activity
- atrial fibrillation
- cardiac resynchronization therapy