ReviewJournal of gastrointestinal oncology2020
Is my life going to change?-a review of quality of life after rectal resection.
Review in Journal of gastrointestinal oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Quality of Life and Functional Outcomes After Rectal Cancer Surgery: A Comparative Study Applying EORTC QLQ-C30, QLQ-CR29, and LARS Score at 1-6 Months Postoperatively.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Rates of colorectal surgery in patients with non-malignant colorectal polyps: Results from a nationwide study.Endoscopy international open · 2026Article
- Quality of life outcomes in colorectal cancer survivors: insights from an observational study at a tertiary cancer center.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Observational
- Study of Changes in Quality of Life After Rectal Cancer Surgery Using FACT-C Questionnaire.Indian journal of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Postoperative urinary dysfunction following lateral lymph node dissection for rectal cancer via minimally invasive surgery.BMC surgery · 2024Article
- Assessing Preoperative (EORTC) QLQ-C30 Score in Elderly Patients with Colorectal Cancer: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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- Segmental Rectum Resection for Deep Endometriosis and Excision Similarly Improve Sexual Function and Pain.Clinics and practice · 2023Article
- Sexual, urinary, and intestinal dysfunction after rectal surgery: pre-, intra-, and post-operative predictors and trends over time in a single high-volume center.Updates in surgery · 2023Article
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- Perineal pseudocontinent colostomy: an alternative method to promote patients' satisfaction and safety?Przeglad gastroenterologiczny · 2023Article
- Impact of gastric and bowel surgery on gastrointestinal drug delivery.Drug delivery and translational research · 2023Review
- Participants' experiences of the management of screen-detected complex polyps within a structured bowel cancer screening programme.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- Survival After Induction Chemotherapy and Chemoradiation Versus Chemoradiation and Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer.The oncologist · 2022Article
- Understanding the psychosocial impact of colorectal cancer on young-onset patients: A scoping review.Cancer medicine · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Rectal resection is a common practice for colorectal surgeons. The causes of this procedure are varied. The most frequent is cancer, but also inflammatory bowel disease, endometriosis, and rectovaginal or rectourethral fistulas. The loss of the normal rectal reservoir function, urinary problems, sexual dysfunction or pelvic pain are frequently reported in patients after rectal surgery and these disorders markedly affect the overall quality of life (QoL). In the last decades, rectal surgery has radically changed, with the development of surgical techniques, and it has progressed from abdominoperineal resection (APR) with a permanent colostomy to sphincter-saving procedures. Nowadays, the use of sphincter-preserving surgery has increased, but all these surgical techniques can have important sequels that modify the QoL of the patients. Historically, surgical outcomes, such as complications, survival and recurrences, have been widely studied by surgeons. In the present day, surgical outcomes have improved, rectal cancer recurrence rate has decreased and survival has increased. For these reasons, it has begun to gain importance in aspects of the QoL of patients, such as body image, fecal continence and sexuality or urinary function. Therefore, physicians should know the influence of different techniques and approaches on functional outcomes and QoL, to be able to inform patients of the treatment benefits and risk of postoperative dysfunctions. The aim of our study is to review the current literature to determine to what degree the QoL of patients who underwent a rectal resection decreases, which domains are the most affected and, in addition, to establish the influence of different surgical techniques and approaches on functional outcomes.
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