Quality of life of cancer patients: An overview of literature

Pages: 2064-2067
Thomas Kurian (Anchery) and Nishi Tripathi (Department of Psychology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)

This article is an effort to overview the outcome of various studies in the ‘QoL of cancer persons based on review of literature’. From ‘descriptive study’ which shows that the quality of some domains of organism is damaged through the treatments for cancer. Regarding the ‘overview on researches’, cancer is a fast growing and one of the most important life-intimidating diseases harshly affecting humanity in recent decades. The term ‘quality of life’ (QOL) is applied for assessing the overall welfare, happiness and physical health of persons and societies. The World Health Organization (WHO)defines quality of life (QoL) as “individual perception of life, values, objectives, standards, and interests in the framework of culture”. The Quality of Life Questionnaire a generic English language version ‘WHOQOL-BREF’ is the most widely used one especially by the researchers. We can treat cancer by operation, radiation, chemotherapy, hormonal treatment and targeted therapy. Mortimer (1999) and others; carry out a study on “Improving the quality and quantity of life among patients with cancer”. They come to a conclusion that; there is forceful proof indicates that; group psychotherapy will helps to get better the QOL of people those who have cancer. Kurian (2019), author of this article, carry out a research on “Anxiety, Depression and Quality of Life among Cancer Patients: An Eclectic Counselling Intervention”. The study comprehended that correlation worth of post-eclectic counselling cancer patients is significant in comparison to pre-eclectic counselling cancer patients and thus accepted the alternative theory. Hence, post-eclectic counselling cancer patients’ exhibits much better quality of life than pre-eclectic counselling cancer patients. An assessment of various studies related with the topic of discussion gives awareness to the physiological, psychological and social characteristics into our consideration. Studies reveal that the psychological intervention has a strong positive outcome and progress in the overall quality of life (QOL) of cancer persons.