ABSTRACT
The aim of our study is to value the quality of life [QOL] in patients with colo-rectal cancers in the region of tunisian center and to compare it to the QOL in a healthy population unhurt of cancer. Our population is made by 80 patients treated for colo-ractal cancers. The population witness includes 80 healthy individuals unhurt of cancers. The assessment of the QOL in patients is achieved with the specific colo-rectal cancer questionnaire: the FACT-C. The comparison of the QOL in the 2 populations is made by the general questionnaire of quality of life of Spitzer. The QOL in patients is good in 55% of cases, average in 44% of cases and bad in 11% of cases. The QOL is better in case of favourable socioeconomic conditions [p< 0,05], colic localization [p < 0,015], absence of metastases [p< 0,05], not mutilating surgery [p< 0,01] especially the absence of stoma [p< 0,001] and the restoring of the continuity [p< 0,002], absence of pain [p < 0,0001], absence of current treatment [p< 0,01]. The comparison of the different domains of QOL between the 2 groups [patients and healthy] finds a better QOL in healthy group, in all domains except for the relational ship domain witch turned to be comparable for the 2 samples