A prospective investigation of pain and fatigue following pelvic exenteration

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AIM: To describe the long-term course of pain and fatigue in patients undergoing pelvic exenteration and to evaluate potential prognostic factors for these outcomes.

DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.

SETTINGS: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

PATIENTS: Consecutive patients undergoing pelvic exenteration surgery between July 2008 and December 2017.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Pain and fatigue scores collected via SF-36v2 Health surveys pre-operatively and at eight time-points post-operatively for a period of 5-years. The course of pain and fatigue were described according to the following prognostic factors; bone resection (yes/no), cancer type (primary/recurrent), margin status (R0/R1-2) and extent of exenteration (complete/partial).

RESULTS: 345 of 459 eligible patients (75 %) consented to the study. The course of pain and fatigue over the 5 year follow-up was favourable. Patients undergoing pelvic exenteration with an R0 resection margin or without bone resection presented lower pain levels throughout the follow-up period. Bone resection, positive surgical margin (R1/R2) and type of cancer did not influence fatigue trajectories. Patients undergoing complete pelvic exenteration were more likely to report a higher level of pain and fatigue in the initial follow-up period, however this difference was not observed in the longer-term.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients undergoing PE (Austin and Solomon, 2015) [1] can expect improvement but an incomplete recovery in the levels of pain and fatigue postoperatively over the 5-year follow-up period. Bone resection as part of exenteration demonstrated higher levels of pain and fatigue.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:47

Enthalten in:

European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology - 47(2021), 12 vom: 26. Dez., Seite 3137-3143

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Vuong, Kenneth [VerfasserIn]
Alchin, Lyndal M [VerfasserIn]
Solomon, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Koh, Cherry E [VerfasserIn]
Steffens, Daniel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer
Clinical course
Fatigue
Journal Article
Pain
Pelvic exenteration

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Date Completed 16.02.2022

Date Revised 16.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ejso.2021.07.022

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329103326