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Cancer Patients: How to Improve Quality of Life?
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Cancer Patients: How to Improve Quality of Life?

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2277

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Pinto Monica

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Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS, Fondazione G Pascale, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: cancer rehabilitation; quality of life

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last two decades, cancer patients live longer thanks to integrated and consequent therapies but side effects related to cancer itself and treatments can cause disability, functional decline and progressive reduction of quality of life. Rehabilitation strategies are crucial yet many patients miss this opportunity. This Special Issue aims to focus some significant topics in adult and child cancer patients of both sexes from developed countries. I am inviting you to contribute to this issue to help give a better future to the growing population of cancer patients.  

Dr. Pinto Monica
Guest Editor

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  • cancer
  • rehabilitation
  • quality of life

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Serious Long-Term Effects of Head and Neck Cancer from the Survivors’ Point of View
by Katherine J. Taylor, Cecilie D. Amdal, Kristin Bjordal, Guro L. Astrup, Bente B. Herlofson, Fréderic Duprez, Ricardo R. Gama, Alexandre Jacinto, Eva Hammerlid, Melissa Scricciolo, Femke Jansen, Irma M. Verdonck-de Leeuw, Giuseppe Fanetti, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Johanna Inhestern, Tatiana Dragan, Alexander Fabian, Andreas Boehm, Ulrike Wöhner, Naomi Kiyota, Maximilian Krüger, Pierluigi Bonomo, Monica Pinto, Sandra Nuyts, Joaquim C. Silva, Carmen Stromberger, Francesco Tramacere, Ayman Bushnak, Pietro Perotti, Michaela Plath, Alberto Paderno, Noa Stempler, Maria Kouri and Susanne Singeradd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Healthcare 2023, 11(6), 906; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11060906 - 21 Mar 2023
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The long-term problems of head and neck cancer survivors (HNCS) are not well known. In a cross-sectional international study aimed at exploring the long-term quality of life in this population, 1114 HNCS were asked to state their two most serious long-term effects. A [...] Read more.
The long-term problems of head and neck cancer survivors (HNCS) are not well known. In a cross-sectional international study aimed at exploring the long-term quality of life in this population, 1114 HNCS were asked to state their two most serious long-term effects. A clinician recorded the responses during face-to-face appointments. A list of 15 example problems was provided, but a free text field was also available. A total of 1033 survivors responded to the question. The most frequent problems were ‘dry mouth’ (DM) (n = 476; 46%), ‘difficulty swallowing/eating’ (DSE) (n = 408; 40%), ‘hoarseness/difficulty speaking’ (HDS) (n = 169; 16%), and ‘pain in the head and neck’ (PHN) (n = 142; 14%). A total of 5% reported no problems. Logistic regression adjusted for age, gender, treatment, and tumor stage and site showed increased odds of reporting DM and DSE for chemo-radiotherapy (CRT) alone compared to surgery alone (odds ratio (OR): 4.7, 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.5–9.0; OR: 2.1, CI: 1.1–3.9), but decreased odds for HDS and PHN (OR: 0.3, CI: 0.1–0.6; OR: 0.2, CI: 0.1–0.5). Survivors with UICC stage IV at diagnosis compared to stage I had increased odds of reporting HDS (OR: 1.9, CI: 1.2–3.0). Laryngeal cancer survivors had reduced odds compared to oropharynx cancer survivors of reporting DM (OR: 0.4, CI: 0.3–0.6) but increased odds of HDS (OR: 7.2, CI: 4.3–12.3). This study provides evidence of the serious long-term problems among HNCS. Full article
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