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Prospective assessment of the quality of life before, during and after image guided intensity modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer

Overview of attention for article published in Radiation Oncology, September 2016
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Title
Prospective assessment of the quality of life before, during and after image guided intensity modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer
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Radiation Oncology, September 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13014-016-0689-4
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Joen Sveistrup, Ole Steen Mortensen, Jakob B Bjørner, Svend Aage Engelholm, Per Munck af Rosenschöld, Peter Meidahl Petersen

Abstract

Radiotherapy (RT) in combination with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer (PCa) carries a risk of gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary toxicity, which might affect the quality of life (QoL). The purpose of this study was to assess the QoL in patients with PCa before, during and after radiotherapy (RT) and to compare the QoL 1 year after RT to a normal population. The QoL was evaluated prospectively by the self-administered questionnaire SF-36 in 87 patients with PCa. The SF-36 was completed before RT (baseline), at start of RT, at end of RT and 1 year after RT. A mixed model analysis was used to determine the changes in QoL at each time point compared to baseline. The patients' QoL 1 year after RT was compared to a normal population consisting of 462 reference subjects matched on age and education. One year after RT, patients reported significantly less pain and significantly fewer limitations due to their physical health compared to baseline. Compared to the normal population, patients reported significantly less pain 1 year after RT. However, patients also reported significantly less vitality, worse mental health as well as significantly more limitations due to physical and mental health 1 year after RT compared to the normal population. In this study, patients with PCa did not experience significant impairment in the QoL 1 year after RT compared to baseline. However, patients reported significantly worse mental health before, during and 1 year after RT compared to the normal population.

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Unknown 35 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 17%
Student > Bachelor 5 14%
Librarian 4 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 9%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 10 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 11%
Computer Science 1 3%
Sports and Recreations 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 12 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 April 2017.
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#13,127,053
of 22,886,568 outputs
Outputs from Radiation Oncology
#589
of 2,060 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#172,555
of 334,966 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Radiation Oncology
#7
of 49 outputs
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