A Questionnaire to Assess the Quality of Life of Rectal Cancer Patients With or Without Stoma

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rectal Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01181557

INT-D176768

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present prospective study was to evaluate the prediction accuracy of EORTC QLQ-C30/C38 questionnaire in rectal cancer patient(RC). This study was designed to investigate how the quality of life (QoL) of patients with rectal cancer changes with time after cancer or after stomia.

Eligible subjects were consecutively enrolled in the investigators' Institute and subjected to EORTC QLQ-C30/C38 questionnaire.

Full description

Eligibility criteria: Italian people with adenocarcinoma of rectum. Exclusion criteria consisted of age younger than 18 years, history of psychiatric illness, and preoperative radiotherapy.

Outcome measures: patient was carried out using a EORTC QLQ-C30/C38 questionnaire.To determine how surgery affects QoL, we divided patients into two groups: first rectal cancer submitted to rectal anterior resection(RAR) and latter rectal cancer submitted to rectal anterior resection with stomia(RARS). Differences in QoL between the two groups were analyzed during three time: first preoperative, second postoperative and latter six month later of after the stoma reconversion in RARS patients

Enrollment: 236 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Rectal cancer

Exclusion criteria

• Age younger than 18 years
• History of psychiatric illness
• Preoperative radiotherapy

Trial design

236 participants in 3 patient groups

rectal cancer with stoma

Description:

rectal cancer submitted to rectal anterior resection with stomia (RARS). Differences in QoL between the two groups were analyzed during three time: first preoperative, second postoperative and latter six month after stoma reconversion

rectal cancer without stoma

Description:

rectal cancer submitted to rectal anterior resection (RAR) Differences in QoL between the two groups were analyzed during three time: first preoperative, second postoperative and latter six month later

anterior resection of rectum

Description:

patients with rectal cancer submitted to RAR and patients with rectal cancer submitted to RARS