[Quality of life in patients with colo-rectal cancers at a Tunisian hospital center. A case control study of a population unhurt by cancer].
The aim of our study is to value the quality of life (QOL) in patients with colo-rectal cancers in the region of tunisian center and to compare it to the QOL in a healthy population unhurt of cancer.


METHODS
Our population is made by 80 patients treated for coloractal cancers. The population witness includes 80 healthy individuals unhurt of cancers. The assessment of the QOL in patients is achieved with the specific colo-rectal cancer questionnaire: the FACT-C. The comparison of the QOL in the 2 populations is made by the general questionnaire of quality of life of Spitzer.


RESULTS
The QOL in patients is good in 55% of cases, average in 44% of cases and bad in 11% of cases. The QOL is better in case of favourable socioeconomic conditions (p < 0,05), colic localization (p < 0.015), absence of metastases (p< 0.05), not mutilating surgery (p < 0.01) especially the absence of stoma (p < 0.001) and the restoring of the continuity (p < 0.002), absence of pain (p < 0.0001), absence of current treatment (p < 0.01). The comparison of the different domains of QOL between the 2 groups (patients and healthy) finds a better QOL in healthy group, in all domains except for the relational ship domain witch turned to be comparable for the 2 samples.
Service de Médecine Carcinologique CHU F. Hached Sousse.
Leila
L
Ben Fatma
Lamia
L
Kallel
Amel
A
Landolsi
Olfa
O
Gharbi
Makram
M
Hochlef
Nadra
N
Cherif
Ridha
R
Bel Hadj Hmida
Rached
R
Letaief
Slim
S
Ben Ahmed
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003082:Colectomy / Q000523:psychology; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D003125:Colostomy / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D012923:Social Class; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014416:Tunisia