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1988 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Psychological and Quality of Life Analysis of the Palliative Treatment of Oesophageal Cancer
verfasst von : H. Barr, N. Krasner
Erschienen in: LASER Optoelectronics in Medicine
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Palliative cancer treatment can not be assessed by using objective or ‘hard’ criteria such as mortality, recurrence of disease, or clinical data on the spread of disease. Emphasis has to be placed on ‘softer’ subjective data. There is little data of this nature on patients with oesophageal tumours treated by laser recannalisation or intubation for the relief of malignant dysphagia. We present a prospective study on the quality of life assessment of patients treated for the palliation of malignant dysphagia