Quality of life measurement in women with cervical cancer: implications for Chinese cervical cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women with cervical cancer now have relatively good 5-year survival rates. Better survival rates have driven the paradigm in cancer care from a medical illness model to a wellness model, which is concerned with the quality of women's lives as well as the length of survival. Thus, the assessment of quality of life among cervical cancer survivors is increasingly paramount for healthcare professionals. The purposes of this review were to describe existing validated quality of life instruments used in cervical cancer survivors, and to reveal the implications of quality of life measurement for Chinese cervical cancer survivors.

Methods

A literature search of five electronic databases was conducted using the terms cervical/cervix cancer, quality of life, survivors, surv

SUBMITTER: Zeng YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2852383 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature