Tuesday, October 30 HealthDay News)-the quality of life of cancer survivors may vary depending on the type of cancer, and millions of United States cancer survivors have a lower quality than normal life, a new study finds.
The researchers looked at more than 1,800 survivors of cancer in adults and more than 24,000 adults without a history of cancer and found that the survivors of cancers of prostate, breast and melanoma a mental - and Fisica-salud - quality of life similar to those who never had cancer.
Survivors of cervical, blood and colorectal cancer as well as cancer survivors with a survival rate of five years of less than 25 per cent (such as liver, lung and pancreatic cancer), however, had worse Fisica-salud - quality of life.
And the survivors of cervical cancer and cancer with a five-year survival rate low also had poorer mental-health-quality of life, according to the study, which was published in the October 30 in the journal Epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention of cancer.
The researchers found that 25 percent of cancer survivors had lower normal Fisica-salud - quality of life, and 10 percent lower than normal mental health quality of life-related. In total, about 3.3 million United States cancer survivors have a physical life quality of below average and nearly 1.4 million have one below the average mental quality of life, the researchers estimated.
"It is very concerning there are a significant number of cancer survivors that years of poor physical or mental health after cancer experience", study author Kathryn Weaver, an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said in a press release from the journal.
"Our results serve as a basis so that in five to 10 years, we can evaluate whether current approaches to improve the health and well-being of cancer survivors are having a positive effect," he said. "I also hope our data will be calling attention to the needs of survivors of cancer, especially those with cervical, blood and less common cancers - and the importance of the supervision of these individuals, even long after his diagnosis of cancer."
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The national United States cancer Institute has more about life after cancer treatment.
Source: Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, press release, 30 October 2012
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