Objective: Although the number of long-term survivors of glioma has increased, there has been little research on the health-related quality of life of long-term survivors of Grade II glioma following treatment with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In this study, we aimed to document the health-related quality of life of people diagnosed with Grade II glioma who had survived >10 years with no evidence of disease at the time of the health-related quality of life survey.
Methods: To investigate the health-related quality of life of Grade II glioma survivors without evidence of disease, we surveyed 50 patients 0-20 years after their initial treatments. Each patient completed a multi-part health-related quality of life questionnaire. Based on these surveys, we examined the relationships between health-related quality of life scores and time since initial treatment, Karnofsky Performance Scale scores at the time of the survey, and history of recurrence, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Results: Excepting bladder control, long-term survivors maintained their quality of life as determined by comparing patients surveyed < 5 and ≥ 10 years after their initial treatment (P < 0.05). Neither radiotherapy nor chemotherapy at the initial treatment was observed to affect health-related quality of life. However, a history of recurrence was significantly associated with deteriorations in many health-related quality of life functional and symptom scores. The Karnofsky Performance Scale scores of patients with a history of recurrence were significantly lower than those without it (P = 0.02). This deterioration was observed in both univariate and multivariate analyses.
Conclusions: Our results indicate that declines in health-related quality of life among long-term survivors of Grade II glioma mainly result from impaired Karnofsky Performance Scale, which is a consequence of disease recurrence.
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