Avaliação da qualidade de vida de idosos com câncer de próstata no ambulatório de oncogeriatria do IMIP

Abstract

ABSTRACT Objectives: The quality of life assessment in elderly patients with prostate cancer during six months of treatment. Methods: This study is from a prospective cohort, in which the sample was 94 patients with prostate cancer and age between 61 and 89 years (main=72.4 years), through the application of the questionnaire QLQ-C30 in the baseline and after six months of treatment. Results: Most of patients (65.9%) are from countryside, about years of education 68.8% studied only for four years or less, as well 62.7% are smokers and 74.4% have the income below three minimum wages. About the clinical variable, most of patients had intermediate risk (45.7%), 31.9% high risk, 20.2% metastasis and 2.1% low risk as for type of treatment the more established was androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) (70.2%), followed by radiotherapy (53.1%) and chemotherapy (3.1%). Conclusion: Regarding the average quality of life, there weren’t significantly changes in global health, except a damage of cognition function and a worse of dyspnea which could be explained through the association with ADT, however, some deeper studies are required. Despite this, the keeping of quality’s life, at least during six months, showed that the decision about ADT must be influenced by the clinic condition of the patient, as the age, comorbidities and expectation about disease’s evolution.