The goal of this study is to evaluate how treatment for esophageal cancer affects your quality of life. The findings of this study may help us understand how this disease and its treatment affect your lifestyle, diet, exercise, support system and overall quality of life. We hope this study will provide important information that can be used to develop programs to improve the quality of life of patients with esophageal cancer.
In order to determine the impact of esophageal cancer and its treatment on patients' quality of life over time, this study will prospectively follow a cohort of patients at specified intervals, evaluating their physical symptoms, physical and social functioning and overall quality of life. Medical and sociodemographic factors as well as health behaviors that might be predictive of adaptation will be tested. This is a preliminary investigation and it is hoped that we will be able to base future research questions on the results of this study.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
409
Newly diagnosed patients will be assessed at four points Time 1 (prior to treatment) * Initial QOL form * FACT-E, PAR, Symptom Assessment Scale, MDSS, Time 2 (initial post-op) * Follow up QOL form * FACT-E, PAR, Symptom Assessment Scale, MDSS Time 3 (6 months post op) * Follow up QOL form * FACT-E, PAR, Symptom Assessment Scale, MDSS, Time 4 (1 year post op) * Follow up QOL form * FACT-E, PAR, Symptom Assessment Scale, MDSS
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
To prospectively evaluate the quality of life of patients before and after esophageal cancer resection.
Time frame: Initial assessment → first post op visit → 6 and 12 months post surgery
To describe a cohort of long term survivors of esophageal cancer in order to identify significant features in patients more than 18 months post surgery.
Time frame: 18 months following treatment
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