Health-related quality of life aspects in patients with low-grade glioma

  • M. Klein
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Part of the Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery book series (NEUROSURGERY, volume 35)

Abstract

Standard therapeutic options for brain tumors include surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Unfortunately, these same therapies pose risks of neurotoxicity, the most common long-term complications being radiation necrosis, chemotherapy-associated leukoencephalopathy, and cognitive deficits. Currently, there is no consensus on the treatment strategy for these tumors. Because of the relatively slow growth rate of low-grade gliomas, patients have a relatively long expected survival.

Compared to traditional outcome measures like (progression-free) survival, evaluation of health-related quality of life may be time-consuming and burdensome for both the patient and the doctor. Besides, given the relatively low incidence of brain tumors and the ultimately fatal outcome of the disease, the interest in HRQOL emerged relatively late in these patients. Moreover, the notion that the disease itself may affect the patient’s ability to judge his or her own functioning may hinder the use of patient self-reported measures.

In future trials, more sensitive measures of long-term cognitive, functional, and HRQOL outcomes on LGG patients at important time points over the disease trajectory are needed to better understand the changing needs that take place over time.

Keywords

Health-related quality of life cognitive functioning neurosurgery radiotherapy chemotherapy mood 
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  1. 1.Department of Medical PsychologyVU University Medical CenterAmsterdamThe Netherlands

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