LAsting Symptoms after Oesophageal Resectional Surgery (LASORS): multicentre validation cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term symptom burden and health-related quality-of-life outcomes after curative oesophageal cancer treatment are poorly understood. Existing tools are cumbersome and do not address the post-treatment population specifically. The aim of this study was to validate the six-symptom LASORS tool for identifying patients after curative oesophageal cancer treatment with poor health-related quality of life and to assess its clinical utility.

Methods

Between 2015 and 2019, patients from 15 UK centres who underwent curative-intent oesophageal cancer treatment, and were disease-free at least 1 year after surgery, were invited to participate in the study and complete LASORS and European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30 and QLQ-OG25 questionnaires.

SUBMITTER: Paine H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11843645 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature