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Table 5 Primary-site-specific mean health-related quality of life (HRQoL) score for cancer-related outpatient treatment

From: Health-related quality of life and its determinants among cancer patients: evidence from 12,148 patients of Indian database

Primary site of Cancer

Sample size

N (%)

Mean HRQoL score

VAS Score

Mean (95%CIs)

p-value

Mean (95%CIs)

p-value

Bladder cancer

74 (0.8%)

0.579(0.498,0.66)

< 0.001

64.62(61.02,68.22)

< 0.001

Bone cancer

146 (1.5%)

0.305(0.222,0.388)

56.2(53.34,59.05)

Brain and other nervous system cancers

100 (1.0%)

0.555(0.467,0.643)

62.77(59.58,65.96)

Breast cancer

2303(23.6%)

0.72(0.709,0.732)

67.7(67.03,68.38)

Cancer of unknown primary site

44 (0.5%)

0.52(0.376,0.664)

58.41(52.3,64.52)

Cervical and Uterine cancers

654 (6.7%)

0.613(0.583,0.643)

65.34(63.94,66.74)

Colorectal cancer

457 (4.7%)

0.616(0.584,0.648)

58.24(56.76,59.72)

Head and Neck cancer

454 (4.7%)

0.581(0.547,0.615)

62.35(60.87,63.84)

Oral cancer

658 (6.7%)

0.584(0.555,0.612)

62.72(61.49,63.94)

Kidney and ureter cancer

65 (0.7%)

0.551(0.453,0.65)

58.45(54.19,62.7)

Leukemia

1167 (12%)

0.782(0.766,0.798)

70.95(69.86,72.04)

Lung cancer

743 (7.6%)

0.58(0.55,0.609)

60.95(59.63,62.26)

Lymphoma

434 (4.4%)

0.651(0.616,0.686)

64.69(62.93,66.44)

Multiple Myeloma

347 (3.6%)

0.63(0.591,0.668)

65.84(63.92,67.76)

Ovarian cancer

745 (7.6%)

0.701(0.676,0.726)

65.68(64.21,67.15)

Pancreatic and Biliary cancers

365 (3.7%)

0.576(0.537,0.614)

54.16(52.74,55.58)

Prostate cancer

118 (1.2%)

0.624(0.556,0.692)

60.17(57.09,63.25)

Penile cancer

25 (0.3%)

0.529(0.352,0.706)

64.92(57.81,72.03)

Skin cancer

36 (0.4%)

0.343(0.153,0.532)

59.31(54.09,64.52)

Soft tissue tumors

63 (0.6%)

0.564(0.462,0.666)

54.44(49.94,58.95)

Testicular cancer

81 (0.8%)

0.703(0.618,0.788)

62.89(58.33,67.45)

Upper GI tract cancers

500 (5.1%)

0.64(0.612,0.668)

57.57(56.26,58.87)

Other hematological cancers (exc. Lymphomas and Leukemia)

151 (1.5%)

0.633(0.577,0.689)

61.95(58.98,64.93)

Other cancers

32 (0.3%)

0.804(0.731,0.877)

67.19(60.08,74.29)

  1. *Cancer categories are based on top 30 cancers as per Global disease burden 2016 estimates for India, Level of significance at p- value less than 0.05