TY  - GEN 
AU  - Barrios Rodríguez, Rocío
AU  - Bravo Pérez, Manuel
AU  - Gil Montoya, José Antonio
AU  - Martínez Lara, Ildefonso
AU  - García Medina, Blas
AU  - Tsakos, Georgios
PY  - 2015
SN  - 1477-7525
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/35850
AB  - Background:

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is gaining importance as a valuable outcome measure in oral cancer area. The aim of this study was to assess the general and oral HRQoL of oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients 6 or more months...
AB  - Methods:

A cross-sectional study was carried out with patients treated for oral cancer at least 6 months post-treatment and a gender and age group matched control group. HRQoL was measured with the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12); oral...
AB  - Results:

For patients (n = 142) and controls (n = 142), 64.1% were males. The mean age was 65.2 (standard deviation (sd): 12.9) years in patients and 67.5 (sd: 13.7) years in controls. Patients had worse SF-12 Physical Component Summary scores than...
AB  - Conclusion:

At least 6 months after treatment, oral cancer patients had worse OHRQoL, worse physical HRQoL and similar psychological HRQoL than the general population.
LA  - eng
PB  - Biomed Central
KW  - Oral cancer
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - SF-12
KW  - OHIP
KW  - OIDP
TI  - Oral and general health-related quality of life in patients treated for oral cancer compared to control group
DO  - 10.1186/s12955-014-0201-5
ER  -