title: [Quality of life in patients treated for early laryngeal cancer, in healthy people and in those with other associated pathologies].
abstract: Nowadays there are different non aggressive treatment options for early laryngeal cancer. However, they are not free of undesirable effects. We have studied this patients' quality of life, by comparing it with that obtained from healthy population and other illness groups (post-AMI patients, Chronic Kidney patients). We have studied 62 T1-T2NoMo laryngeal carcinoma diagnosed at the "Virgen de la Victoria" clinical hospital from Malaga, Spain, between 1990 and 1998. We used the Quality of Life in Málaga (QLM), general QL questionnaire which was developed and validated at the Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of Málaga, Spain. The results were compared with those obtained from ramdom samples in healthy population from Málaga and from various pathology groups. The global QOL of our patients treated for an early glottic cancer (Index Quality of life 29.4%) was better than almost all the other ones.
authors.affiliation: FEA del Servicio de ORL, Hospital Infanta Margarita de Carba, Córdoba. jmolinar@medynet.com
authors.forename: J Maria
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Molina Ruiz del Portal
authors.forename: Maria J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Fernández-Crehuet Serrano
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Caballero Villarraso
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez Bedmar
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gómez Gracia
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fernández-Crehuet Navajas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires