This research aimed to assess the impact of nutritional status and frailty in the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with bladder or kidney cancer.
This was a cross-sectional study with individuals aged 20 years or older. Frailty phenotype was defined using the criteria of Fried et al. (2001). Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) classified nutritional status. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of life questionnaire Core-30 third version (EORTC QLQ-C30) assessed HRQoL.
Forty-four patients with bladder and 44 with kidney cancer, mostly male, with a mean age of 65.9 and 58.6 years, respectively, were evaluated. Presence of frailty was not different between young and older adults. More than 80% of the robust subjects were well-nourished, while there was a predominance of frail with some degree of malnutrition (p < 0.05). The summary score of HRQoL was worse among the frails than pre-frails and robusts, both in bladder (68.5 vs 86.8 vs 89.5; p = 0.002) and in kidney cancer (54.9 vs 82.9 vs 91.4; p < 0.001), as well as in malnourished compared to well-nourished with bladder (72.9 vs 90.3; p = 0.003) and kidney cancer (69.4 vs 88.3; p = 0.001). After adjusted, frailty and malnutrition continued associated with poor summary score (p < 0.05).
These findings indicate that frailty and malnutrition negatively affect HRQoL of patients with bladder or kidney cancer in several aspects.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. 2021 Feb 19 [Epub ahead of print]
Patrícia Fonseca Dos Reis, Patrícia Sousa de França, Mylena Pinto Dos Santos, Renata Brum Martucci
Nutrition and Dietetic Service, Cancer Hospital Unit I, National Cancer Institute Jose Alencar Gomes da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ., Nutrition and Dietetic Service, Cancer Hospital Unit I, National Cancer Institute Jose Alencar Gomes da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Post-graduation Program in Food, Nutrition and Health, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.