Assessment of the quality of life in patients treated for colorectal cancer

Filarecka, Agnieszka, Leksowski, Łukasz, Biernacki, Maciej, Jęchorek, Michał. Assessment of the quality of life in patients treated for colorectal cancer. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(4):326-334. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.04.027 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/40074 https://zenodo.org/record/7117875 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 1, 2021. No. 32343. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 1 grudnia 2021 r. Lp. 32343. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe:Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2022; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.04.2022. Revised: 26.04.2022. Accepted: 30.04.2022. Assessment of the quality of life in patients treated for colorectal cancer Agnieszka Filarecka 1, Łukasz Leksowski 2, Maciej Biernacki 3, Michał Jęchorek 4 1 Collegium Medicum, UMK Bydgoszcz, Chair and Clinic of Oncological Surgery 2 Collegium Medicum, UMK Bydgoszcz, Clinic of Rehabilitation 3 Collegium Medicum, UMK Bydgoszcz, Chair and Department od Anatomy 4 "ToTu" Addiction Therapy Center in Karnice Corresponding author: mgr Agnieszka Filarecka Collegium Medicum, UMK Bydgoszcz, hair and Clinic of Oncological Surgery ul. Izabeli Romanowskiej 2, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland Tel. 503074346 e-mail: aga.filarecka@gmail.com Summary Colorectal cancer is a common cause of death. The incidence of cancer increases every year, it is caused by better secondary prevention - screening and early stage cancer detection. The early stages of neoplasms enable the implementation of effective treatment. The method of treating colon cancer is radical treatment - surgery. The quality of life in patients with chronic diseases such as cancer is variable in each phase of the disease. The presented work aims to show the quality of life of patients on the day of admission to the hospital for the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer. The study used standardized QLQ-C30 forms with the extension of the CR29 module. Comprehensive assessment of the quality of life enables the presentation of the patient's condition before the procedure and is the starting point for the assessment of the patient after the procedure. The studies show that patients have the lowest assessment of the overall quality of life and emotional functioning. They judge physical and mental functioning well. Symptoms related to the disease, such as abdominal pain, significantly reduce the quality of life. The presented research shows that each time before the procedure, the patient should have the quality of life assessed in order to possibly further compare the changes in the subjective assessment of the quality of life. The research shows that patients diagnosed with cancer have a low quality of life assessment and preventive measures should be implemented in the form of consultations. Key words: QLQ- C30, QLQ- CR29, surger