Ten-year quality of life outcomes in men with prostate cancer
Abstract
- Many prostate cancer survivors face ongoing decrements in health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
- The long-term trajectories of men with prostate cancer are not well described
- To our knowledge, this is the first substantive prospective study to track men's HRQoL, life satisfaction and symptom burden ten years from diagnosis
- Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), multiple comorbidities, younger age and socioeconomic disadvantage are risk indicators for poorer long-term HRQoL after prostate cancer.
- Risk indicators need to be incorporated into survivorship care planning to facilitate personalised care for men most at risk of poorer physical and mental health.
Keywords
mental health, prostate cancer, prostatic neoplasms, psychological symptoms, quality of life, supportive care, survivors, survivorship aging, Article, clinical outcome, comorbidity, demography, disease burden, external beam radiotherapy, follow up, health status, household income, human, life satisfaction, major clinical study, male, mental health, predictor variable, prostate cancer, quality of life, Queensland, questionnaire, Satisfaction with Life Scale, sexual function, Short Form 36, telephone interview, urinary tract function
Document Type
Other
Date of Publication
1-1-2020
Publication Title
Psycho-Oncology
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
School
Exercise Medicine Research Institute
RAS ID
34029
Funders
National Health and Medical Research Council.
Cancer Council Queensland.
Grant Number
NHMRC Number : 442301
Copyright
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Comments
Ralph, N., Ng, S. K., Zajdlewicz, L., Lepore, S. J., Heathcote, P., Kneebone, A., ... & Chambers, S. K. (2020). Ten-year quality of life outcomes in men with prostate cancer. Psycho-Oncology, 29(2), 444-449. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.5255