Quality-of-life scores in locally advanced laryngeal carcinoma patients as a predictive value and impact on survival
Omnia Abd El-Fattah and Mohamed Sheta
Tanta University Hospital, Egypt
: J Clin Exp Oncol
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose is to analyse the factors that determine quality-of-life (QOL) scores among successfully treated locally advanced laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients and clarify their impact on survival. Patients & Methods: A study was conducted to determine the relationship between QOL scores (Physical and mental component of short form SF-36 questionnaire and the pain, eating, speech, and mood domains from University of Washington Quality of Life (UW-QOL) questionnaire and all-cause survival among 62 locally advanced laryngeal cancer patients. Results: The physical and mental component of short form SF-36 score and the pain, eating and mood domains from UWQOL score were significant survival predictors. The speech domain of UW-QOL score was not associated with survival. Conclusion: QOL scores were valuable in predicting and detecting those patients with poor survival who had low score to improve survival by close follow up, early treatment of recurrence and any detected deterioration in one or more of QOL domain in those patients.
Biography
Omnia Abd El-Fattah is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine Tanta University Hospital, Egypt, member of the Egyptian Association for Cancer-based National Cancer Institute, Cairo, Egypt and Patients' Friends Society tumors in Gharbia based Department for Clinical Oncology, Tanta University Hospital, Egypt. She has Master’s and MD degrees in Clinical Oncology in 2002 and 2009 respectively from Faculty of Medicine Tanta University Hospital, Egypt. Her Master’s and MD theses focused on non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. She is teaching postgraduate students and is interested in participating in a therapeutic service in university hospitals. She attended many courses in the capabilities of faculty development and supervised multiple Master’s and MD theses. She has attended multiple national and local conferences of Clinical Oncology and has multiple international published papers in Clinical Oncology.
