Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Hodgkin Lymphoma : A Longitudinal Analysis of the German Hodgkin Study Group

PURPOSE: Many important details of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after diagnosis and treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) are still unknown because large longitudinal studies of HRQoL are rare. Therefore, we analyzed a systematically assessed, comprehensive range of HRQoL domains in patients with HL of all stages from diagnosis up to 5 years of survivorship.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: We included patients with HL age 18-60 years at diagnosis from the German Hodgkin Study Group trials HD13, HD14, and HD15. We analyzed HRQoL using all functional and symptom scales of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire C30 including deviations from reference values. We estimated the effect of different disease, patient, and treatment characteristics using multiple regression and repeated measures analysis and computed correlations of HRQoL scores.

RESULTS: We analyzed 4,215 patients with any HRQoL assessment within 5 years after treatment. Higher tumor burden at diagnosis was associated with impaired baseline scores in many HRQoL domains. During survivorship, cognitive, emotional, role, and social functioning and fatigue, dyspnea, sleep, and financial problems were severely and persistently affected. From year 2 on, mean deviations from reference values ranged between 12 and 29 points, with 10 points being a commonly used margin of clinical relevance. In all 3 trials, HRQoL domains 2 and 5 years after therapy were significantly influenced by baseline scores and age but not by randomized treatments. Fatigue was most closely correlated with other symptoms and scales.

CONCLUSION: Our results show a high and persistent amount of different HRQoL deficits in survivors of HL that are largely independent of the applied chemotherapies. Our analysis underscores the high, unmet medical need of these rather young survivors of HL regarding the psychosocial adverse effects of the cancer experience.

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CommentIn: J Clin Oncol. 2020 Sep 1;38(25):2821-2823. - PMID 32650684

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

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Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 38(2020), 25 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 2839-2848

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kreissl, Stefanie [VerfasserIn]
Müller, Horst [VerfasserIn]
Goergen, Helen [VerfasserIn]
Meissner, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Topp, Max [VerfasserIn]
Sökler, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Markova, Jana [VerfasserIn]
Bernhard, Jürg [VerfasserIn]
Greil, Richard [VerfasserIn]
von Tresckow, Bastian [VerfasserIn]
Behringer, Karolin [VerfasserIn]
Rüffer, Jens-Ulrich [VerfasserIn]
Flechtner, Hans-Henning [VerfasserIn]
Möstl, Michaela [VerfasserIn]
Fuchs, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Engert, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Diehl, Volker [VerfasserIn]
Borchmann, Peter [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 04.03.2021

Date Revised 04.03.2021

published: Print-Electronic

ISRCTN: ISRCTN63474366, ISRCTN32443041, ISRCTN63474366

CommentIn: J Clin Oncol. 2020 Sep 1;38(25):2821-2823. - PMID 32650684

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1200/JCO.19.03160

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311526128