Background: The modern day oral oncotherapy is now concerned on the oral
quality of life after treatment of the
patient . There is need to evaluate final outcome following the different combination of
treatment modalities available to make better
therapeutic treatment decisions.
Oral health -related
quality of life (QHRQOL) and their
nutritional status is gaining importance as a valuable
outcome measure in
oral cancer area and compare with the other
control group . The aim of the study was to examine the
nutritional status among the
oral cancer patients and compare the QHRQoL of two groups (i.e.,
oral cancer group and
control group ) in Varanasi district.
Methods: The
prospective study was conducted from January 2018 to August 2018. 124
oral cancer patients and 124 control people from the Varanasi district participated in this study.
Nutritional status of
oral cancer treated
patients was assessed. QHRQoL of the
oral cancer patients were compared with the
control group .
Results: Among the 124
oral cancer patient , 67.74% were malnourished or at
risk of
malnutrition .
Patients had worse QHRQoL among
oral cancer group. There were highly statistically significant differences found in the
oral health impact profile and oral impacts on daily performances on comparing the
oral cancer patients with the
control group .
Conclusions: This study indicated that
oral cancer patients with
malnutrition or
risk of
malnutrition have significantly worse OHRQoL than with the control
population group .