Quality of life of colorectal cancer survivors in a Ghanaian population.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We collected data to evaluate the quality of life of patients who have survived between one and 8 years from the diagnosis of colorectal cancer.

Data description

We collected quality of life (QoL) data from colorectal patients who were diagnosed between 2009 and 2015 at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and have survived until January 2017. The dataset consists of patients' demographic data, clinicopathological characteristics, and QoL data. The validated QoL instruments for data curation was an adopted version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-C30 and the EORTC QLQ-CR29. The QLQ-C30 was a 30-item general cancer instrument with 5 functional subscales, and 9 symptom subscales, whereas the QLQ-CR29 was a 29-item sca

SUBMITTER: Yorke J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6884899 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature