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Comparison of Quality of Life among Patients with Oro-Hypopharyngeal Cancer after Tonsillectomy and Panscopy Using Transoral Robotic Surgery: A Pilot Study
- Source :
- Case Reports in Oncology, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 1295-1303 (2020), Case Reports in Oncology
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Karger Publishers, 2020.
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Abstract
- Studies have shown lower treatment-related morbidity when using transoral robotic surgery (TORS) compared to conventional surgery. Patients investigated for oro- and hypopharyngeal cancer (T1, T2) were compared concerning quality of life (QoL) after tonsillectomy and TORS using validated QoL questionnaires: QLQ-C30 and QLQ-H&N35. The patients treated with TORS showed a higher pain score and thus also a higher need for painkillers, whereas they had lower values on self-assessment of anxiety/depression using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale score. The pre- and postoperative information given did not meet the expectations of the patients treated with conventional surgery. The present data show advantages of the TORS technique from the patients’ perspective. Even if patients treated with TORS are in need of more painkilling treatment, they cope better with the long-term effects of treatment, as judged by self-assessment of anxiety and depression.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Quality of life
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Conventional surgery
Case Report
Oro-hypopharyngeal cancer
qlq-c30
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
lcsh:RC254-282
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Transoral robotic surgery
Medicine
Depression (differential diagnoses)
H&N35
oro-hypopharyngeal cancer
Cancer och onkologi
h&n35
business.industry
QLQ-C30
Hypopharyngeal cancer
medicine.disease
lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
humanities
Tonsillectomy
Surgery
030104 developmental biology
Oncology
quality of life
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Cancer and Oncology
Anxiety
transoral robotic surgery
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16626575
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Case Reports in Oncology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c88c4edc980ff672e5c66386b423fbc9