Assessing Long-Term Quality of Life Concerns Through Survivorship Clinic in Head and Neck Cancer Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterize the concerns of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients and discern changes in quality-of-life (QoL) during long-term follow-up.

Study design

Retrospective review.

Setting

Survivorship clinic at a tertiary academic center.

Methods

A retrospective review was conducted on HNC patients seen in our survivorship clinic between 1/2020 and 1/2024 using the University of Washington Quality of Life (UW-QOL) Questionnaire.

Results

Three hundred and forty-two patients were seen for 914 encounters. Patients were divided into 4 groups: pretreatment (n = 326), 0 to 12 months posttreatment (n = 247), 1 to 3 years posttreatment (n = 248), and more than 3 years posttreatment (n = 64). The average follow-up after treatment was 459 days (range: 0-5.2

SUBMITTER: Yousef A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11698637 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature