ArticleAnnals of surgical treatment and research2022
Postoperative quality of life after gastrectomy in gastric cancer patients: a prospective longitudinal observation study.
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- Development and Feasibility Assessment of Mobile Application-Based Digital Therapeutics for Postoperative Supportive Care in Gastric Cancer Patients Following Gastrectomy.Journal of gastric cancer · 2024Trial
- Defining Recovery After Gastrectomy: Insights from Longitudinally Collected Patient-Reported Outcomes.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Psychosocial Impacts of Prophylactic Total Gastrectomy for Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer: A Narrative Review.Psycho-oncology · 2025Review
- Risk analysis of jejunal orientation on the incidence of dysphagia after total gastrectomy: a retrospective cohort study.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
- Prospective Multicenter Observational Study on Postoperative Quality of Life According to Type of Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer.Journal of gastric cancer · 2025Observational
- Bi-phase CT radiomics nomogram for the preoperative prediction of pylorus lymph node metastasis in non-pyloric gastric cancer patients.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025Article
- Function Preserving Gastrectomy and Quality of Life.Journal of gastric cancer · 2025Review
- Experience sharing on perioperative clinical management of gastric cancer patients based on the "China Robotic Gastric Cancer Surgery Guidelines".Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2024Review
- Impact of malnutrition and nutritional support after gastrectomy in patients with gastric cancer.Annals of gastroenterological surgery · 2024Review
- Health-related quality of life among patients with esophageal, gastric, and colorectal cancer at Kenyatta National Hospital.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2024Article
- User-Centered Development of a Mobile App to Assess the Quality of Life of Patients With Cancer: Iterative Investigation and Usability Testing.JMIR cancer · 2023Article
- Impact on quality of life with affirmative feedback on weight loss after gastrectomy.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Comparison between laparoscopic pylorus-preserving gastrectomy and laparoscopic distal gastrectomy for overweight patients with early gastric cancer.Annals of surgical treatment and research · 2023Article
- Recent evidence on quality of life following total gastrectomy for gastric cancer: A scoping review.Medicine internationalArticle
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Abstract
Purpose: The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer quality of life (QOL) questionnaires (QLQ-C30, QLQ-OG25, and QLQ-STO22) are widely used for the assessment of gastric cancer patients. This study aimed to use these questionnaires to evaluate QOL in postgastrectomy patients. Methods: We prospectively evaluated 106 patients with distal gastrectomy (DG), 57 with pylorus-preserving gastrectomy (PPG), and 117 with total gastrectomy (TG). Body weight and QOL questionnaires were evaluated preoperatively and postoperatively (at 3 weeks, and 3, 6, and 12 months). Results: TG patients had significantly more weight loss than DG/PPG patients. Compared with DG, patients after PPG had less dyspnea (P = 0.008) and trouble with coughing (P = 0.049), but more severe symptoms of insomnia (P = 0.037) and reflux (P = 0.030) at postoperative 12 months. Compared with DG/PPG, TG was associated with worse body image, dysphagia, eating, and taste in both OG25 and STO22. Moreover, OG25 revealed worse QOL in the TG group with respect to odynophagia, eating with others, choked when swallowing, trouble talking, and weight loss. The QOL of patients who received chemotherapy was worse than those in the chemo-free group in both physical functioning and symptoms such as nausea/vomiting, appetite loss, and trouble with taste; however, these side effects would soon disappear after finishing chemotherapy. Conclusion: PPG was similar to DG in terms of postoperative QOL and maintaining body weight, while TG was always inferior to both DG and PPG. Adjuvant chemotherapy can affect both body weight and QOL despite being reversible.
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