The quality of life score and its contributing factors of cancer patients undergoing palliative treatment at thai binh oncology center:

Keywords: Quality of life, cancer, palliative care.

Purpose: To describe the quality of life score of cancer patients undergoing

palliative treatment at the Oncology Center of Thai Binh General Hospital in 2020 -

2021 and explore the factors from the supply side service provision that affects the

quality of life of these patients.

Method: A cross - sectional study was carried out on 198 stage IV cancer patients

who were treated from August 2020 to July 2021. Evaluation of the quality of life score

of the above group of patients was performed according to the EORTC QLQ - C30

toolkit version 3 before and after treatment at the Palliative Department.

Results: The average scores for comprehensive health, physical, motor, emotional,

cognitive, social, respectively, increased by 17.8; 19.3; 24.1; 18.7; 12.4 and 12.1

points. Symptoms such as fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain and shortness of breath

after treatment have significantly improved.

Conclusion: After treatment for the general health issue, the patient’s physical

function and most of the symptoms were markedly improved in terms of the mean

score. Functional, emotional and social functions improved and decreased in mean

scores after treatment. The patient’s financial difficulties also increased after treatment.

The quality of life score and its contributing factors of cancer patients undergoing palliative treatment at thai binh oncology center