- Title
- Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes Following Thyroid Surgery for Malignant or Benign Disease: Deficits Persist in Cancer Survivors Beyond Five Years
- Creator
- Blefari, Nicholas D. A.; Rowe, Christopher W.; Wiadji, Elvina; Lambkin, David; Carroll, Rosemary; Fradgley, Elizabeth A.; O'Neill, Christine J.
- Relation
- World Journal of Surgery Vol. 46, Issue 10, p. 2423-2432
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00268-022-06643-5
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Background: Thyroid cancer diagnoses are increasing and treatment can lead to significant morbidity. Long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in thyroid cancer is understudied and lacks reference populations. This study compares long-term HRQoL between patients with thyroid cancer or benign disease, following thyroid surgery. Methods: Patients undergoing thyroidectomy between 2000 and 2017 were identified from a pathology database. 696 participants (278 malignant, 418 benign) were invited to complete a validated disease-specific HRQoL tool, City of Hope-Thyroid Version. Propensity scores were used to adjust for demographic and clinical differences between cohorts. Results: 206 patients (102 malignant, 104 benign), 71% female, returned surveys a median of 6.5 (range 1-19) years after thyroidectomy. Of the cancer cohort, 95% had differentiated thyroid cancer and 83% remained disease-free. There were no significant differences in overall HRQoL scores between groups. In comparison to the benign cohort, cancer patients showed a significant detriment in the social subdomain score (OR 0.10-0.96, p = 0.017) but not in other subdomains (physical, psychological, spiritual). Female gender, increasing BMI and cancer recurrence were significantly associated with decreased overall HRQoL. Compared to the benign cohort, cancer patients reported more personal and family distress associated with diagnosis and treatment, increased future uncertainty, poorer concentration and greater financial burden. Conclusion: Although no difference in overall HRQoL was found between patients undergoing thyroidectomy for benign or malignant disease, detriments in social well-being may persist many years after surgery. Thyroid cancer patients and their families may benefit from increased supports around the time of diagnosis and treatment.
- Subject
- thyroid cancer; patients; quality of life; survivors; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1481634
- Identifier
- uon:50755
- Identifier
- ISSN:0364-2313
- Rights
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- eng
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