Health-related quality of life in disease-free survivors of surgically treated lung cancer compared with the general population.

Objective: We compared the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of disease-free lung cancer survivors with those from the general population.

Background: Although clinical research usually is focused on how to better identify the lung patients most likely to benefit from surgery in terms of survival, few studies have concentrated specifically on HRQOL in disease-free lung cancer survivors compared with that of the general population.

Methods: We enrolled 830 disease-free cancer survivors (median time since diagnosis, 4.