Affiliation:
1. Vitebsk State Medical University
2. N. N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus
Abstract
The article provides an overview of the current data on the quality of life in cancer patients, as well as the functional results of radical treatment of prostate cancer. The main goal was to evaluate the functional results in patients after radical prostatectomy, combined radiation therapy, and high dose-rate brachytherapy in 8 to 12 months after treatment. The study included 148 patients treated from 2017 to 2018. The life quality was assessed by specialized questionnaire. The obtained results indicate the better functional results and a higher level of the quality of life of patients after radiation therapy, compared with radical prostatectomy.
Publisher
Publishing House Belorusskaya Nauka
Reference46 articles.
1. WHOQOL Group. The development of the WHO quality of life assessment instruments (the WHOQOL). Quality of life assessment: international perspectives: proceedings of the joint-meeting organized by the World Health Organization and the Fondation IPSEN in Paris, July 2–3, 1993. Berlin, 1994, pp. 41–57.
2. Petrov V. I. Basic principles and methodology of evidence-based medicine. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo meditsinskogo universiteta [Bulletin of Volgograd State Medical University], 2011, no. 2, pp. 3–9 (in Russian).
3. Hays R. D., Reeve B. B. Measurement and modeling of health-related quality of life. International Encyclopedia of public health. Amsterdam, Boston, 2008, pp. 241–252.
4. Torrance G. W. Utility approach to measuring health-related quality of life. Journal of Chronic Disease, 1987, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 593–600. https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9681(87)90019-1
5. Ebrahim S. Clinical and public health perspectives and applications of health-related quality of life measurement. Social Science Medicine, 1995, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 1383–1394. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(95)00116-O