Abstract

Abstract Patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma have a variety of symptoms after surgery, which will affect the normal performance of various functions of patients for a long time, affect the quality of life of patients, and even affect the survival time of patients. In the past, we paid more attention to patients’ symptoms and quality of life at a single time point after surgery, which lacked continuity and long-term nature. In this study, 244 patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who received thoracoscopic radical resection of esophageal carcinoma in Sichuan Tumor Hospital from April to December 2019 were selected by convenience sampling method. Adopt Chinese VERSION MD Anderson Symptom Inventory, European Organization for Research and teatment of cancer quality of life Questionnaire, EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-OES18 were used to investigate the patients at 10 time points one year after surgery, and Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between postoperative symptoms and quality of life. Postoperative role and emotional function of the patients recovered to the baseline level 1 month after surgery, cognitive and social function recovered to the baseline level 3 months after surgery, and physical function and overall health status did not recover to the baseline level 1 year after surgery. Sleep restlessness, distress, drowsiness, and dry mouth recovered to baseline 3 months after surgery, while pain and fatigue did not recover to baseline 1 year after surgery. One year after surgery, the main symptoms were negatively correlated with body, role, emotion, cognition, social function and overall health status (P < 0.05). laparoscopic thoracic esophageal cancer radical surgery in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinomas there were different degree of symptoms within one year after surgery, and multiple symptoms one year after surgery still exists, the serious influence the patient’s quality of life, health care workers should pay attention to the symptoms of patients with postoperative longitudinal change characteristic, value assessment and management of patients with symptoms, improve patient quality of life after surgery.

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