Impact of obesity on quality of life, psychological distress, and coping on patients with colon cancer.

CONCLUSION: Obesity appears to affect how people confront cancer, as well as their tolerance to oncological treatment and relapse.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Obesity is a causal factor and affects prognosis in colorectal cancer. Obese patients displayed more comorbidities, more pain following cancer surgery, worse coping, more depression, and perceived less social support than the non-obese. Severe hematological toxicity was more frequent among non-obese subjects, whereas withdrawal from adjuvant chemotherapy rates was higher in the obese cohort and during follow-up, they presented greater 12-month recurrence rates. With the growing and maintained increase of obesity and cancers associated with it, including colorectal cancer, we must adapt our approach to these more fragile cases who have a worse prognosis, to improve outcomes.
PMID: 33492756 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Oncologist - January 25, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Gomez D, Jimenez-Fonseca P, Manzano Fernández A, Cruz Castellanos P, Valero Arbizu M, Martínez Cabañes R, Lorente Estellés D, Ferreira E, Del Rio J, García García T, Carmona-Bayonas A, Calderon C Tags: Oncologist Source Type: research