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Health-related quality-of-life assessment in surgical patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma: A single-center analysis from Mainland China.
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- A systematic review of health state utility values for thyroid cancer.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Pooled it
- Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcome Measures in the Thyroid Cancer Population.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2020Pooled it
- Cognitive function, anxiety, and depression in patients newly diagnosed with thyroid cancer in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and health-related quality of life in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Health-related quality of life and radioiodine therapy in thyroid cancer patients: a before-and-after study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Mental Health and Quality of Life of Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Pre and Post Radioactive Iodine Treatment: A Prospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Long Term Health-Related Quality of Life with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Goiter Endemic Area.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023Article
- Hearing the Voices of Australian Thyroid Cancer Survivors: Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Semistructured Interviews Identifies Unmet Support Needs.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2023Article
- The "not so good" thyroid cancer: a scoping review on risk factors associated with anxiety, depression and quality of life.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Article
- The quality of life after trans oral video-assisted thyroidectomy and cervical thyroidectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Review
- Factors affecting the health-promoting behavior of thyroid cancer survivors: comparison by stage of cancer survivorship.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Article
- Quality of Life and Surgical Outcome of Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach (TOETVA) versus Open Thyroid Surgery: Experience from a Single Center in Vietnam.Journal of thyroid research · 2022Article
- Health-related quality of life of thyroid cancer patients undergoing radioiodine therapy: a cohort real-world study in a reference public cancer hospital in Brazil.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2020Article
- Quality of Life in Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma Patients Undergoing Radiofrequency Ablation or Surgery: A Comparative Study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Article
- Serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region genotypes in relation to stress conditions among patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Even with a favorable prognosis, the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients remains unclear and conflicting. Thus, in the present study, we compared the HRQoL of PTC patients with that of the general population (GP).The study was performed in our thyroid and parathyroid surgery department, and 186 PTC patients who had undergone thyroidectomy were included. The exclusion criteria were an age < 18 years, no follow-up, and the presence of other malignant neoplasms. The control group included 186 volunteers who were matched by age, gender, and socioeconomic status. The survivor and control groups were asked to complete the Chinese version of the SF-36 questionnaire.The 186 volunteers from the GP were well matched to PTC patients with respect to the baseline demographic characteristics. PTC patients showed significantly lower scores than those of the control group in 7 domains of the HRQoL: role-physical (RP), bodily pain (BP), general health (GH), vitality (VT), social functioning (SF), role-emotional (RE), and mental health (MH). PTC was a risk factor for a low Physical Component Summary (PCS) score and a low Mental Component Summary (MCS) score (all P values were less than .05). Significant reductions in the scores of all 8 domains were observed at 1 month after the operation, and obvious recovery was noted at 6 months according to the PCS and MCS scores (all P values were less than .05). However, even 2 years after surgery, few domain scores had recovered to levels found in the GP, including the PCS and MCS scores (all P values were less than .05).Due to the decreased preoperative and postoperative HRQoL scores, much attention should be given to and more long-term observation should be performed for PTC patients, even those who have undergone surgery.
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