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TL;DR
It found that 70.8% of patients experienced a clinically significant and sustained improvement in HRQoL, primarily driven by better physical and emotional well-being.
Annals of Surgery Open · 11 authors, 10 centres
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It found that 70.8% of patients experienced a clinically significant and sustained improvement in HRQoL, primarily driven by better physical and emotional well-being.
Higher preoperative albumin levels were significantly associated with greater HRQoL improvements (P = 0.043). Limitations include the absence of a control group, potential selection bias, a relatively small sample size, and decreasing questionnaire compliance over time due to patient attrition. The findings suggest palliative GI surgery can provide meaningful HRQoL benefits for selected advanced cancer patients, particularly those with better nutritional status.