title: [The effect of smoking on the quality of life enhancement following prosthetic rehabilitation in head and neck cancer patients who underwent surgical treatment].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It is known that the quality of life (QoL) of patients surgically treated for head and neck cancer (HNC) is significantly enhanced by rehabilitation. It is also known that some of these patients will not quit smoking.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess if smoking hampers rehabilitation-related QoL enhancement after surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Applying the H&N 35 questionnaire of EORTC, we assessed the QoL of 38 smoking and non-smoking patients who underwent surgical therapy for HNC and subsequent rehabilitation. QoL was assessed after surgery (after the healing period) and 6 months after rehabilitation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  While the QoL enhancement of nonsmokers was significant in almost all aspects, that of smoking patients did not reach the level of significance on a number of scales. The results suggest that smoking does not hamper rehabilitation directly, rather, it prevents rehabilitation from exerting its beneficial effects through its own effects.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Smoking is a factor that measurably acts against the efforts to enhance the QoL of the surgically treated HNC patient. Therefore, it is essential that emphasis is put on smoking cessation right from the cancer diagnosis also for this reason. Orv. Hetil., 2017, 158(5), 172-177.
authors.affiliation: Szájsebészeti Tanszék, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Fogorvostudományi Kar Szeged.
authors.forename: Judit
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nagy
authors.affiliation: Dental Sopron Fogorvosi Rendelő Sopron.
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Novák
authors.affiliation: Szájsebészeti Tanszék, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Fogorvostudományi Kar Szeged.
authors.forename: Kristóf
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Buzás
authors.affiliation: Szájsebészeti Tanszék, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Fogorvostudományi Kar Szeged.
authors.forename: Katalin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagy
authors.affiliation: Konzerváló és Esztétikai Fogászati Tanszék, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Fogorvostudományi Kar Szeged, Tisza Lajos krt. 64., 6720.
authors.forename: Márk
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Antal
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008341:Mandibular Prosthesis; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: EORTC; EORTC H&N 35 kérdőív; cancers of the head and neck region; dohányzás; fej-nyak régió daganatai; quality of life; rehabilitation; rehabilitáció; smoking; életminőség