癌症病人生活品質評估與臨床實務–由診斷治療期到癌症存活期間的考量 賴裕和教授
Quality of Life Assessment and Related Clinical Practice – The Perspective from Diagnosis/Treatment to Survival Phases

Abstract
Cancer is one of the most life threatening disease in Taiwan and worldwide. The impacts of cancer and side effects related to its treatments may bring varied levels of impacts on patients’ quality of life (QOL). In the past decades, limited to the traditional medical treatment system, the care of cancer patients might be limited to those patients undergoing treatments. Relatively little attention has been found on cancer patients who have completed anti-cancer treatments, such as cancer survivors. Thus, a supportive cancer care concept would be introduced to renew the traditional care concept and extend this supportive oncology care into the whole stages of cancer process.
Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is not only a treatment or care concept, but also, it reflects a daily life-linked practice. It can be viewed as one of the indicators to reflect patients’ health related life contents. Thus, a systematical assessment of patients’ HRQOL can help health professional better understand patients’ life quality and further provide them timing treatments and supportive cares.
An overview of cancer patients’ HRQOL would be introduced in this presentation. Major quality of life related problems would be also discussed. These issues may cover patients’ symptom distress/ symptom severity, psychological distress, and social/spiritual needs. How to use these data in clinical practice to improve patients’ QOL will be discussed.

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