Anorexia, pain and peripheral neuropathy are associated with a decrease in quality of life in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer receiving outpatient chemotherapy — a retrospective observational study
| Autor: | Shiori Sadaka, Hideki Hayashi, Hirotoshi Iihara, Maaya Koda, Shinya Uemura, Hiroko Kato-Hayashi, Akio Suzuki, Hironori Fujii, Ryo Kobayashi, Tadashi Sugiyama, Takuma Ishihara, Masahito Shimizu, Takuji Iwashita, Koichi Ohata |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Quality of life
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Pharmacology (nursing) Anorexia RM1-950 Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pharmacy and materia medica Proportional odds logistic regression model Internal medicine Pancreatic cancer Adverse events related outpatient cancer chemotherapy medicine Pharmacology (medical) 030212 general & internal medicine Adverse effect Chemotherapy business.industry Retrospective cohort study medicine.disease RS1-441 Peripheral neuropathy 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Therapeutics. Pharmacology medicine.symptom Retrospective observational study business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021) Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences |
| ISSN: | 2055-0294 |
| Popis: | Background Cancer chemotherapy usually improves clinical outcomes in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC), but can also cause moderate-to-severe adverse events (AEs). We investigated the relationship between moderate-to-severe AEs and quality of life (QOL) in patients with APC who received outpatient chemotherapy. Methods We recruited APC patients who received outpatient chemotherapy in Gifu University Hospital between September 2017 and December 2018. Adverse events related to chemotherapy were assessed by a pharmacist collaborating with a physician using common terminology criteria for AEs (CTCAE) ver 4.0, and QOL of patients was self-assessed by patients using the five-level EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L Japanese edition 2). Associations between the EQ-5D-5L utility value and serious AEs were assessed using proportional odds logistic regression. Results A total of 59 patients who received 475 chemotherapy cycles were included. The proportional odds logistic regression indicated that grade ≥ 2 anorexia, pain and peripheral neuropathy were significantly correlated with a decreased EQ-5D-5L utility value. Pharmaceutical intervention for these AEs significantly improved the patients’ EQ-5D-5L utility value. Conclusions Anorexia, pain and peripheral neuropathy were significantly associated with a decrease in QOL. It is assumed that appropriate pharmaceutical intervention with particular emphasis on these AEs can improve the QOL of pancreatic cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy. |
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