Quality of Life of Cholangiocarcinoma Patients: Preliminary Study
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This study was of longitudinal prospective design and sough to evaluate quality of life (QOL) of cholangiocarcinoma patients at before and one month after treatment. The incidence of adverse events and their impact on a patient’s QOL were also analyzed. The study population were new patients with cholangiocarcinoma receiving treatment at Khon Kaen or Srinagarind Hospitals. QOL was assessed using Thai Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Hepatobiliary (FACT-Hep) version 4 and adverse events were assessed using Common Toxicity Criteria Adverse Event (CTCAE) version 3. The report of QOL was categorized as improved, no change and worsening based on clinical meaningful scores of the measures. The mean difference of QOL scores before and after treatment, the relation of adverse events, and their severity on QOL were analyzed using Wilcoxon Sign rank test, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis, respectively. Preliminary results from 16 cholangiocarcinoma patients indicate that. Most patients were male (69%), median age 59, able to work or do high activities at baseline (ECOG ≤ 1, 87%) and only 12 out of 16 patients received chemotherapy treatment (75%). After a one month period, 12 out of 16 patients reported no change or worsening QOL (75%). The most common adverse events reported were fatigue (69%), anorexia (69%), weight loss (44%) and nausea/vomiting (37%). There were more reports of grade 3 or 4 adverse events at one month after treatment in terms of fatigue (12.6% vs. 6.3%), anorexia (43.8% vs. 18.8%) and nausea/vomiting (12.5% vs. 6.3%) compared to baseline. Patients experiencing weight loss after the treatments had reported a statistically significant lower QOL than those without (p < 0.05). The alteration of fatigue severity from worsening, no-change or better after treatment has significantly affected QOL of these patients (p=0.05).
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