Health-Related Quality of Life among Paediatric Survivors of Primary Brain Tumours and Acute Leukaemia

• Published in: Quality of life research Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 191 - 198
• Main Authors: Pogorzala, Monika, Styczynski, Jan, Kurylak, Andrzej, Debski, Robert, Wojtkiewicz, Magdalena, Wysocki, Mariusz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.03.2010; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age; Age Factors; Bleeding time; Brain cancer; Brain neoplasms; Brain research; Cancer; Cancer therapies; Central nervous system; Central Nervous System Neoplasms - mortality; Central Nervous System Neoplasms - psychology; Chemotherapy; Child; Children; Data Collection; Female; Health Status; Hematology; Humans; Leukemia; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute - mortality; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute - psychology; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neoplasia; Oncology; Pediatrics; Policy and Applications; Population; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma - mortality; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma - psychology; Psychometrics; Public Health; Quality of life; Quality of Life - psychology; Quality of Life Research; Questionnaires; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy; Remission (Medicine); Schools; Self evaluation; Sex Factors; Sickness Impact Profile; Slavic languages; Sociology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Survivor; Survivors - psychology; Tumors; Young Adult; Health-related quality of life; PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core; Brain tumour; Children; Acute leukaemia

Purpose Comparative assessment of the HRQL of paediatric survivors of brain tumours (BT) and of acute leukaemia against a population of their healthy peers. Methods The study consisted of patients who had completed treatment for BT (n=36) or acute leukaemia (n=35) and were aged between 8 and 19. Hea...