TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality of life and cancer-related needs in patients with choroidal melanoma
AU - Wiley, Joshua F.
AU - Laird, Kelsey
AU - Beran, Tammy
AU - McCannel, Tara A.
AU - Stanton, Annette L.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Aims: To assess quality of life (QoL) indices and their associations with treatment modality, sociodemographics and cancer-related needs in choroidal melanoma patients. Methods: Patients (N=99) treated at the University of California, Los Angeles, for choroidal melanoma within the prior 5 years (M=2.05) completed questionnaires assessing demographics, cancer-related needs, vision-specific QoL, depressive symptoms and concern about recurrence. Visual acuity, comorbidities, treatment modality (radiotherapy, enucleation) and years since diagnosis were gathered from medical records. Primary analyses were multiple regressions. Results: Although concern about cancer recurrence was elevated, QoL was better than in other oncology samples and comparable with healthy samples on some outcomes. Enucleation was associated with worse vision-specific QoL, and presence of comorbid diseases was associated with worse vision-specific QoL, depressive symptoms and concern about cancer recurring (all p values
AB - Aims: To assess quality of life (QoL) indices and their associations with treatment modality, sociodemographics and cancer-related needs in choroidal melanoma patients. Methods: Patients (N=99) treated at the University of California, Los Angeles, for choroidal melanoma within the prior 5 years (M=2.05) completed questionnaires assessing demographics, cancer-related needs, vision-specific QoL, depressive symptoms and concern about recurrence. Visual acuity, comorbidities, treatment modality (radiotherapy, enucleation) and years since diagnosis were gathered from medical records. Primary analyses were multiple regressions. Results: Although concern about cancer recurrence was elevated, QoL was better than in other oncology samples and comparable with healthy samples on some outcomes. Enucleation was associated with worse vision-specific QoL, and presence of comorbid diseases was associated with worse vision-specific QoL, depressive symptoms and concern about cancer recurring (all p values
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U2 - 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-303635
DO - 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-303635
M3 - Article
C2 - 24037609
AN - SCOPUS:84888641841
SN - 0007-1161
VL - 97
SP - 1471
EP - 1474
JO - British Journal of Ophthalmology
JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology
IS - 11
ER -