Quality of life in patients undergoing surveillance for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer-a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The main objective of this study was to evaluate the various instruments available to evaluate the quality of life (QoL) in patients diagnosed with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) undergoing surveillance.

Methods

A PubMed literature review was carried out with query terms ("Urinary Bladder Neoplasms" [Mesh] OR "Bladder malignancy") AND ("quality of life") including all studies up to June 2020. This resulted in 576 peer-reviewed articles. A further 12 articles from additional sources were included. A total of 473 articles were eliminated due to lack of relevance to the topic of concern. A further 93 articles evaluating NMIBC and articles evaluating Radiotherapy were excluded and a total of 22 studies were studied.

Results

In total, 22 studies were

SUBMITTER: Nayak A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8261437 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature