title: Analysis of factors affecting the life quality of the patients with late stomach cancer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide a theoretical basis for the clinical care of patients with late stomach cancer, we investigated the life quality and analysed its related factor in the patients with late stomach cancer.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Due to the lack of effective screening methods, stomach cancer usually has been in the advanced stage when patients are diagnosed. However, the treatment for late stomach cancer is a tough problem in today's medicine. Chemotherapy or radiotherapy brings patients physiological and psychological distress and heavy financial burden, affecting patients' therapeutic effects, prognosis and life quality.
  
  
  METHODS
  The patients with late stomach cancer were included, and then, questionnaires about the life quality were completed.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaires including European Organisation for Research on Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30, Social Support Rating Scale, Medical Coping Modes Questionnaire and Self-rating Anxiety Scale were completed by 173 patients with late stomach cancer who received treatment in our hospital between May 2010 and May 2011. Correlation analyses were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall score of the life quality of the patients with late stomach cancer was only 29·54 ± 12·21. The social support, medical coping modes, anxiety and patients' clinical data (except radiotherapy) markedly affected the overall life quality of the patients with late stomach cancer (p < 0·05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The life quality of the patients with late stomach cancer is poor and is associated with many factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study provides a theoretical basis for better nursing the patients with late stomach cancer and improving their life quality.
authors.affiliation: Gastrointestinal Surgery, the First Affiliates Hospital of Liaoning Medical University, Jinzhou, China.
authors.forename: Yan-Mei
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Cai-Feng
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Ba
authors.forename: Yu-Bin
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012944:Social Support; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: late stomach cancer; life quality; life quality-related factors