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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
ABSTRACT
The authors make a retrospective study of a series of 140 patients aged 59 years in average, followed up from 1995 to 2002 for adenocarcinoma of the stomach. Surgical resection was performed in 79 percent of the patients with total gastrectomy in 15.4%, partial gastrectomy in 50.6%. Resection was considered as curative in 66%. Lymph node metastases were present in 42, 9 percent of the patients. Margins of resection were involved in 24, 5% of the specimens. The mean survival rate was 26.5 months, 13 months and 5 months after curative resection, palliative resection and without resection