The role of follow-up after treatment for gynecologic cancer.
The quality of life of the genital cancer patient may be considered in its many different aspects and principally from a medical, sexual and psychological point of view. In order to verify whether a substantial modification of the variable "anxiety" and of the bipolar axis male-female exists, we are conducting a research on our patients undergoing oncologic follow-up (806 patients, treated from 1975 to 1990). The result shows that the state "anxiety" decreases after follow-up examination; on the contrary to trait "anxiety" increases before and after follow-up examination. More complete information could perhaps be obtained having knowledge of the patient's personality, attitudes, feelings etc.
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Istituto di II Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica, Università di Catania.
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Di Mauro
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Sapienza
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D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans