Quality of Life After Cancer May Depend on Tumor Type TUESDAY,
Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer survivors' quality of life
can vary widely depending on the type of cancer, and millions of
U.S. cancer survivors have a lower-than-normal quality of life,
a new study finds. Researchers looked at more than 1,800 adult
cancer survivors and more than 24,000 adults with no history of
cancer and found that survivors of melanoma, breast and prostate
cancers had a mental- and physical-health-related quality of
life similar to those who never had cancer. Survivors of
cervical, blood and colorectal cancers, as well as survivors of
cancers with a five-year survival rate of less than 25 percent
(such as liver, lung and pancreatic cancers), however, had worse
physical-health-related quality of life. And survivors of
cervical cancer and cancers with a low five-year survival rate
also had worse mental-health-related quality of life, according
to the study, which was published in the Oct. 30 issue of the
journal Cancer Epidem