TY - GEN
T1 - The Effect of Cancers Treatment in Quality of Life of the Patient
T2 - 6th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science, SCDS 2021
AU - Purnami, Santi Wulan
AU - Saputri, Prilyandari Dina
AU - Otok, Bambang Widjanarko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Cancer treatments are expected to improve the quality of life of the patients. Thus the comparison of the quality of life before and after treatment is important to be present. Several dimensions are used in measuring the quality of life, i.e., global quality of life, physical functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning, and social functioning. We applied meta-analysis to identify the comparison based on the included study material from Google Scholar. The duration in measuring the quality of life after treatment is at least two months. The treatments included in this study are chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. There are 12 suitable study materials from 1150 available articles. The models used are a random-effects model since there exists heterogeneity between studies for all variables. In general, the quality of life of patients after treatment has increased, which is indicated by the negative mean difference estimation for all variables. However, the improvement of the quality of life in the dimensions of role functioning and cognitive functioning is not significant. Meanwhile, in the other four dimensions, the improvement was significant. Thus, cancer treatments are able to improve the patient's quality of life in the long term.
AB - Cancer treatments are expected to improve the quality of life of the patients. Thus the comparison of the quality of life before and after treatment is important to be present. Several dimensions are used in measuring the quality of life, i.e., global quality of life, physical functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning, and social functioning. We applied meta-analysis to identify the comparison based on the included study material from Google Scholar. The duration in measuring the quality of life after treatment is at least two months. The treatments included in this study are chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. There are 12 suitable study materials from 1150 available articles. The models used are a random-effects model since there exists heterogeneity between studies for all variables. In general, the quality of life of patients after treatment has increased, which is indicated by the negative mean difference estimation for all variables. However, the improvement of the quality of life in the dimensions of role functioning and cognitive functioning is not significant. Meanwhile, in the other four dimensions, the improvement was significant. Thus, cancer treatments are able to improve the patient's quality of life in the long term.
KW - Cancer
KW - Meta-analysis
KW - Quality of life
KW - Treatment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119451297&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-7334-4_25
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-7334-4_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85119451297
SN - 9789811673337
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 341
EP - 350
BT - Soft Computing in Data Science - 6th International Conference, SCDS 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Mohamed, Azlinah
A2 - Yap, Bee Wah
A2 - Zain, Jasni Mohamad
A2 - Berry, Michael W.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 2 November 2021 through 3 November 2021
ER -
