A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess the Quality of Life for Women’s with Gynacological Cancer

Background: Gynecologic cancer is any cancer that begins in a woman’s reproductive organs. Thus, any woman is at risk for developing gynecologic cancer. Approximately 100,000 women are diagnosed with gynecologic cancer in the United States each year. Family history, obesity, age and HPV are important risk factors for gynecologic cancer. Pap tests, maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle, genetic testing, and the HPV vaccine are at the forefront of gynecologic cancer prevention. Gynecological cancers are among the most frequent cancers in the female population. The diagnosis of cancer is an experience that forces patients to a profound and radical change not only in daily activities and life projects but also in their identity, role, responsibility, priorities, needs, and necessities. Although advances in screening techniques and anticancer therapies have increased long-term survival, neoplastic disease and associated treatments still have numerous physical and psychosocial consequences that deeply affect patients’ quality of life. The measurement of the health-related quality of life in cancer patients includes the assessment of their subjective perception of symptoms, the side effects of treatments, and the consequences of the disease on various aspects of physical, role, emotional, cognitive, and social functioning. The assessment of in oncology represents an important endpoint for clinical studies because there is a significant association between the overall quality of life, the domains of functioning, symptoms severity, adherence to treatments, and long-term survival. Gynecological cancers are among the most common cancers in women and hence an important public health issue. Due to the lack of cancer awareness, variable pathology, and dearth of proper screening facilities in developing countries such as India, most women report at advanced stages, adversely affecting the prognosis and clinical outcomes. Ovarian cancer has emerged as one of the most common ...