Health-related quality of life among non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer survivors: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effect of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) diagnosis and treatment on survivors' quality of life (QoL).

Patients and methods

Of the 5979 patients with NMIBC diagnosed between 2010 and 2014 in North Carolina, 2000 patients were randomly selected to be invited to enroll in this cross-sectional study. Data were collected by postal mail survey. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core (QLQ-C30) and the NMIBC-specific module were included in the survey to measure QoL. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, anova, and Pearson's correlation were used to describe demographics and to assess how QoL varied by sex, cancer stage, time since diagnosis, and treatment.

Results

A total of 398 surviv

SUBMITTER: Jung A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7137766 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature