Quality of Life in Patients Treated for Curable Rectal Cancer

Savatta, Salvatore G.; Temple, Larissa K.

doi:10.1053/j.scrs.2005.09.009

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“…People with colorectal cancer are at risk of experiencing poor quality of life following surgery and treatment (Dunn et al, 2006;Engel et al, 2003), continue to experience side effects post surgery and treatment, such as fatigue and altered bowel habits (Camilleri-Brennan and Steele, 2002;Desnoo and Faithful, 2006;Simpson and Whyte, 2006), experience continual fears of recurrence (Northouse, Schafer, Tipton, and Metivier, 1999) and feelings of uncertainty and concerns for the future (Persson and Hellstrom, 2002;Simpson and Whyte, 2006), and often struggle to adapt to living with a stoma and the implications that this has for their physical, emotional, sexual and social functioning (Brown and Randle, 2005;Desnoo and Faithful, 2006;Persson and Hellstrom, 2002;Sprangers, Taal, Aaronson, and te Velde, 1995;Sprangers, te Velde, Aaronson, and Taal, 1993). In the years following diagnosis, people experience difficulties in physical functioning and carrying out daily activities (Marijnen et al, 2005;Ramsey et al, 2000), psychological and social functioning (Ramsey et al, 2000), sexual functioning (Savatta and Temple, 2005), finances and returning to and managing employment, (Arndt, Merx, Stegmaier, Ziegler, and Brenner, 2004;Sanchez, Richardson, and Mason, 2004) and in adapting to and managing bodily changes, such as a colostomy (Desnoo and Faithful, 2006). Furthermore, many people continue to suffer from longer term side effects including pain, fatigue, and altered bowel habits (Arndt et al, 2004;Desnoo and Faithful, 2006;Ramsey et al, 2000).…”

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Disrupted lives and threats to identity: The experiences of people with colorectal cancer within the first year following diagnosis

Hubbard¹,

Kidd²,

Kearney³

2010

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Fax: +44(0)1786 460060 Word count 7853Dr Gill Hubbard is a senior research fellow who leads the 'Cancer as a long-term condition' research programme at CCRC. She has a background in sociology and social policy.Dr Lisa Kidd is a research fellow at CCRC. She has a background in nursing and has recently been awarded a Doctor of Philosophy for a study of perceived control and involvement in self care for people with cancer.Professor Nora Kearney is Director of CCRC. She has a background in nursing and an extensive track record in cancer care research, in particular, in symptom improvement and patient experiences. 1 Disrupted lives and threats to identity: The experiences of people with colorectal cancer within the first year following diagnosis AbstractIn this paper we focus on the experiences of 18 people with colorectal cancer, involved in a large longitudinal qualitative study to explore people's experiences of cancer within the first year following diagnosis. Three depth interviews over the course of the year were carried out.During analysis, we drew on biographically informed approaches of understanding chronic illness, particularly the work of Bury (1982;2001;1991) and Charmaz (1994;1983;1995;2002) to explore the extent to which people within the first year following diagnosis experience cancer as biographically disruptive. We explore the biographical work that individuals carry out in the context of an assault on their identity and discuss the relevance of the concept biographical disruption for people who experience cancer as an acute, chronic and/or life-threatening condition. We also discuss the concept's relevance for people who have lived a hard life and, hence, may anticipate these types of disruptions in their lives and experience their impact differently. We conclude that universal application of the concept biographical disruption to the experience of cancer within the first year of diagnosis is not appropriate. This study has implications for cancer services, in particular, the findings call for the development of interventions to support those people who experience cancer as an assault on their identity.

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Disrupted lives and threats to identity: The experiences of people with colorectal cancer within the first year following diagnosis

Hubbard¹,

Kidd²,

Kearney³

2010

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“…In surgery for cancers in the lower third of the rectum, a LAR without a permanent stoma is preferable in terms of long-term QoL for the patients [ 8 ]. However, the Cochrane Collaboration [ 9 10 ] showed no significant overall differences in QoL between the anterior resection and the APR groups. Manceau et al [ 11 ] suggested that the overall QoL for elderly patients who underwent surgery for rectal cancer did not seem to differ from that for younger patients.…”

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