“…Few population-based studies have evaluated QoL after rectal cancer and data comparing women with rectal cancer with appropriate community controls are lacking [46][47][48][49]. Much of the research includes sampling patients at a wide range of times since diagnosis [50,51], or is based on selective samples of hospital patients [46,48,52]. A large population-based study of 439 CRC patients 1 year after diagnosis, including community controls [53], examined QoL using the cancer-specific EORTC QLQ-C30 and found that issues such as emotional and social functioning, fatigue, dyspnea, insomnia, constipation, diarrhea, and financial difficulties were the main factors affecting QoL in younger CRC patients, compared with community controls.…”