Stability of health-related quality of life in the Norwegian general population and impact of chronic morbidity in individuals with and without a cancer diagnosis

Changes in arm morbidities and health-related quality of life after breast cancer surgery – a five-year follow-up study

“…The HRQoL in our subjects was better than for the age-matched Norwegian female population [23], and is in accordance with the previously reported increase in HRQoL in disease-free physical active BCS [3,4]. Late morbidities after breast cancer affect several subscales of HRQoL [4Á6,23].…”

“…The Functioning scale decreased significantly by (8.6 points (Table IV, Figure 2), which is in accordance with previous results [4Á6]; however, the previously reported decrease in Physical Functioning values in BCS (for the same age group) was not found in our study [4] (Table IV, Figure 2). The Global Health status increased significantly by 7.3 points, from the baseline to five years after surgery (Table IV, Figure 2), and was more than 10 points above the mean value reported of 69.99 25.8 for the general female population for the age group between 70 and 79 years of age, and five points above the general female population aged 60 to 69 years [23]. As previously reported, the women who participated in this study were included based on the criteria of being able to participate in physical therapy rehabilitation with resistance exercise training at an outpatient clinic [12].…”

“…The HRQoL was evaluated using The Core Quality of life Questionnaire of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC QLQ-C30, version 3.0) [23]. The raw scores were calculated into scales (0Á100) using the recommended EORTC procedures.…”

Personality and choice of coping predict quality of life in head and neck cancer patients during follow-up

“…That has been shown also in the present investigation as regard to neuroticism. Furthermore, as well known [2,6,32], the QoL indexes turned out to be relatively stable throughout the investigated time period. Thus, to some extent the QoL score fill the requirements of being a trait of the person [19] and as such to some extent satisfying the definition of being a personality trait.…”

Metabolic syndrome after risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in women at high risk for hereditary breast ovarian cancer: A controlled observational study

“…In order to obtain normative population samples, the Cancer Clinic at The Norwegian Radium Hospital performed two similar studies one year a part (233). Using public control group therefore consisted of 602 and 301 controls, respectively.…”