Patient and Caregiver Experience of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living With Recurrent Oropharyngeal Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The management of recurrent oropharyngeal cancer (rOPC) is complex. Curative options carry considerable risk of morbidity with overall poor prognosis. Little data exist on function and quality of life (QoL) outcomes for noncurative treatments. Even less is known about patient and carer experiences of function and QoL change over time when undergoing curative or noncurative treatment(s) for rOPC.

Objective

To investigate the patient and caregiver experience of diagnosis, treatment, and living with recurrent oropharyngeal cancer and changes to function/QoL.

Design, setting, and participants

A longitudinal prospective and retrospective qualitative study was carried out at a specialist cancer center in the United Kingdom. Participants with a biopsy proven diagn

SUBMITTER: Brady G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11583016 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature