NCT01152164

Quality of Life in Patients After Combined Modality Treatment of Rectal Cancer

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 167 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institute of Oncology Ljubljana · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is gathering informations about patients' quality of life after combined modality treatment of rectal cancer to evaluate how combined modality treatment for rectal cancer affects patients' quality of life. The findings of this study may provide us important information that can be used in treatment decision and to develop programs to improve quality of life of patients with rectal cancer.

Detailed description

Over the last two decades, rectal cancer research has lead to better understanding of disease behaviour, resulting in more efficient treatments and higher prevalence of cancer survivors.Due to aggressive therapy, rectal cancer survivors can exhibit late sequelae of treatment, most common being impaired bowel, voiding, sexual malfunctioning and quality of life impairment. In order to determine the impact of rectal cancer and its treatment on patients' quality of life over time, this study will prospectively follow a cohort of patients at specified intervals evaluating their physical symptoms, physical and social functioning and overall quality of life.Medical and sociodemographic factors that might be predictive will be tested.

Conditions

• Rectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	questionnaires	Quality of life assessment using questionnaires EORTC QLQ C30 and 38 at baseline, one year and two years after the surgery of rectal cancer, treated with preoperative capecitabine based radiochemotherapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2012-09-01
• First posted: 2010-06-29
• Last updated: 2012-03-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Slovenia