Health-Related Quality of Life Determinants in Swedish Patients after Surgery for Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors

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Introduction: Overall survival for patients with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors (siNETs) is often long even with metastatic disease, making quality of life issues especially relevant. The impact of surgery on their quality of life is unknown.

Aim(s): We investigated determinants of health-related quality of life (QoL) in patients who underwent surgery for a siNET.

Materials and methods: Patients operated for a siNET between 1st July 1998 and 31st October 2016 at Skåne University Hospital who were alive in February 2017 were sent EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-GINET21 questionnaires, after approval by the research ethics committee in Lund. Global QoL, physical function, disease-related worries, diarrhea and endocrine symptoms were evaluated with multiple regression in relation to patient-, tumor- and treatment-related factors. STATA 11® was used for statistical analysis.

Conference: 15th Annual ENETSConcerence (2018)

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Authors: Milanetto A, Nordenström E, Sundlöv A, Almquist M,

Keywords: health-related quality of life, small intestinal neuroendocrine tumor,