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Patient experienced side effects and adverse events after cancer treatment - Patient initiated research

Författare

  • SH Petersen
  • B Feldinger
  • N Jessen
  • H Kaufmann
  • Bolette Pedersen
  • Hanne Tønnesen

Summary, in English

Background:

In the literature radiation of head and neck cancer (HNC) is followed by late side effects for more than a

third of the patients. However, nearly all patients seem to experience side effects. The aim was to collect the multitude

of these experiences through a patient-developed detailed questionnaire.



Methods:

77 of 117 patients responded to a validated questionnaire from the Danish HNC patient network, age 61 (32 -

90) with 5 years (0 to 32) post treatment period.



Results:

99% of the patients experienced at least one side effect, 67% more than twenty symptoms categorised into

mouth complains, swallowing and eating problems, affected speaking ability, pain and fatigue during their daily living.

Ten years survival was the only significant prognostic factor OR 0.13 (CI 0.02-0.81). Only swallowing and eating problems

were significantly reduced over time (p=0.048) and in relation to calendar period (0.049), but not with increasing

age.



Conclusion:

The patients experienced pronounced sequelae, independent of gender, age and treatment/intervention.

Publiceringsår

2011

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

5-8

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Clinical Health Promotion

Volym

1

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Clinical Health Promotion Society (CHPS)

Ämne

  • Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Clinical Health Promotion Centre

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2226-5864