Dorcaratto Dimitri, Grande Luís, Ramón José M, Pera Manuel
Sección de Cirugía Gastrointestinal, Servicio de Cirugía General y Digestiva, Hospital Universitario del Mar, Institut de Recerca IMIM-Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Cir Esp. 2011 Dec;89(10):635-44. doi: 10.1016/j.ciresp.2011.07.006. Epub 2011 Sep 9.
The study of the health related quality of life in patients with digestive tract cancer, and particularly in those with tumours of the oesophagus and stomach, provides useful information for selecting the most suitable therapeutic option. It may also be used to predict the impact of the disease and its possible treatments on the physical, emotional and social condition of the patient. Various sensitive and reliable tools have been developed over the past decades that are capable of measuring the quality of life of patients; the use of questionnaires has made it easier to exchange information between the patient and the doctor. The pre- and post-operative variations in the quality of life in patients with oesophageal-gastric cancer are of prognostic value on the outcome of the disease. For all these reasons, the health related quality of life is currently considered, along with disease free survival and absence of recurrences, one of the most important parameters in order to assess the impact on the patients of a particular oncological treatment. The aim of this article is to review the role of the health related quality of life assessment, as well as the various tools which are available to measure it in patients with oesophageal-gastric cancer.
对消化道癌症患者，尤其是食管癌和胃癌患者的健康相关生活质量进行研究，可为选择最合适的治疗方案提供有用信息。它还可用于预测疾病及其可能的治疗方法对患者身体、情感和社会状况的影响。在过去几十年中，已经开发出各种敏感且可靠的工具来测量患者的生活质量；问卷的使用使患者与医生之间的信息交流更加容易。食管胃癌患者术前和术后生活质量的变化对疾病的预后具有预测价值。基于所有这些原因，目前健康相关生活质量与无病生存期和无复发情况一起，被视为评估特定肿瘤治疗对患者影响的最重要参数之一。本文的目的是综述健康相关生活质量评估的作用，以及在食管胃癌患者中可用于测量它的各种工具。
