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Quality of life and psychosocial adjustment of young patients after treatment of bone cancer

✍ Scribed by Rosemarie Felder-Puig; Anton K. Formann; Alexander Mildner; Wolfgang Bretschneider; Benedikt Bucher; Reinhard Windhager; Andreas Zoubek; Stefan Puig; Reinhard Topf

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
92 KB
Volume
83
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis

BACKGROUND.

The aim of this study was to collect information about the psychosocial situation of young patients after multimodality therapy for bone cancer.

METHODS.

Selection criteria for patients were ages 15-30 years, tumor localization at the extremities, and an interval of at least 1 year since the end of treatment. Of 110 patients, 60 were willing to participate. Evaluation of psychosocial quality of life included assessment of psychosocial adjustment and age-appropriate achievements as well as identification of problems typical for this patient group.

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