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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 102, 期 1, 页码 27-34出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605459
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lung neoplasms; mass screening; quality of life; spiral computed tomography
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- Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) [22000130, 120610015]
- Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) [EMCR 2001-2371]
- Health Insurance Innovation Foundation (Innovatiefonds Zorgverzekeraars)
BACKGROUND: In lung cancer CT screening, participants often have an indeterminate screening result at baseline requiring a follow-up CT. In subjects with either an indeterminate or a negative result after screening, we investigated whether health-related quality of life (HRQoL) changed over time and differed between groups in the short term. METHODS: A total of 733 participants in the NELSON trial received four questionnaires: T0, before randomisation; T1, 1 week before the baseline screening; T2, 1 day after the screening; and T3, 2 months after the screening results but before the 3-month follow-up CT. HRQoL was measured as generic HRQoL (the 12-item Short Form, SF-12; the EuroQol questionnaire, EQ-5D), anxiety (the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAI-6), and lung-cancer-specific distress (the Impact of Event Scale, IES). For analyses, repeated-measures analysis of variance was used, adjusted for covariates. RESULTS: Response to each questionnaire was 88% or higher. Scores on SF-12, EQ-5D, and STAI-6 showed no clinically relevant changes over time. At T3, IES scores that were clinically relevant increased after an indeterminate result, whereas these scores showed a significant decrease after a negative result. At T3, differences in IES scores between the two baseline result groups were both significant and clinically relevant (P<0.01). CONCLUSION: This longitudinal study among participants of a lung cancer screening programme showed that in the short term recipients of an indeterminate result experienced increased lung-cancer-specific distress, whereas the HRQoL changes after a negative baseline screening result may be interpreted as a relief. British Journal of Cancer (2010) 102, 27-34. doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6605459 www.bjcancer.com Published online 24 November 2009 (C) 2010 Cancer Research UK
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