Yip Rowena, Taioli Emanuela, Schwartz Rebecca, Li Kunwei, Becker Betsy J, Tam Kathleen, Htwe Yu Maw, Yankelevitz David F, Henschke Claudia I
a Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York , New York, USA.
b Institute for Translational Epidemiology and Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York , New York, USA.
Cancer Invest. 2018;36(5):296-308. doi: 10.1080/07357907.2018.1474892. Epub 2018 Jul 24.
This review summarizes the literature on QoL in early stage lung cancer patients who underwent surgery. PubMed and PsycINFO were searched. Twelve articles from 10 distinct studies were identified for a total of 992 patients. Five QoL measures were used. One study reported only on pre-surgical QoL, six only on post-surgical QoL and three studies reported on both pre- and post-surgical QoL. Timing for the administration of post-surgical QoL surveys varied. The literature on QoL in Stage I non-small-cell lung cancer patients is very sparse. Additional research is needed to explore the impact of different surgical approaches on QoL.
