Quality of health assessment in oral cancer patients postoperatively – A retrospective study
Meera Mahalingam, S. Thiruneelakandan, Thangavelu Annamalai, Varsha k.Pavithran
Abstract
Oral cancer is the second most common disease affecting Indian population. Though better surgical, reconstruction and effective chemo/radiation protocols available these days improving the disease related outcomes, the debilitating effect of such therapeutic intervention on long term has negative impact on the quality of life of such patients. It has been drastically affected in many ways such as pain, disfigurement, social activity, health and functional impairment of speech and deglutition. For these reasons, the measurements of quality of life of patients are emerging trend nowadays. This study aims to evaluate the health related quality of life of patients affected with oral cancer and treated by surgery.