Five-year follow-up mortality prognostic index for colorectal patients.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To identify 5-year survival prognostic variables in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) and to propose a survival prognostic score that also takes into account changes over time in the patient's health-related quality of life (HRQoL) status.

Methods

Prospective observational cohort study of CRC patients. We collected data from their diagnosis, intervention, and at 1, 2, 3, and 5 years following the index intervention, also collecting HRQoL data using the EuroQol-5D-5L (EQ-5D-5L), European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer's Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 (EORTC-QLQ-C30), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaires. Multivariate Cox proportional models were used.

Results

We found predictors of mortality over the 5-ye

SUBMITTER: Orive M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9998584 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature