← Back to all signals
RESEARCH PAPER ANALYSIS

Quality of Life in Pediatric Oncology Patients in Lebanon (2014-2019): A Multi-center Study.

AI interpretation is pending for this paper.

Open original publication →
PMID39911999
JournalCureus
Publication Date2025-01-06
Ingested2026-08-02 12:03 AM
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

What the AI sees

Not AI summarized yet.

WHY IT MATTERS

Research significance

Pending deeper interpretation.

ABSTRACT

Source abstract

Aim Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in pediatrics worldwide. The present study aimed to assess the quality of life (QOL) of pediatric oncology patients diagnosed within the last five years at Lebanese hospitals, and who are residing in Lebanon. Methods Pediatric oncology patients were asked to fill out a questionnaire collecting data on personal information, disease status, and QOL using the EORTC-QLQ-C30 (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer-Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30-item version) after receiving their guardian's consent. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 25 (Released 2017; IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) was used for statistical analysis. Results The study enrolled 146 patients; 82 (56.2%) were boys. The mean age was 11.39 ± 3.90 years. Significant statistical correlations were found between the mother's educational level and physical functioning (p-value = 0.006), the number of siblings and each cognitive functioning (p-value = 0.025), and financial difficulties (p-value < 0.0001). The father's salary was statistically correlated with the patient's emotional and social functioning and financial difficulties (p-value < 0.05). The type of treatment had a significant effect on cognitive functioning and financial difficulties (p-value < 0.05), with chemotherapy patients having lower scores for financial burden than combination therapy patients. A total of 77.4% (113 patients) had leukemia, 16 (11%) had lymphoma, and 17 (11.6%) had solid tumors. Solid tumor patients had higher cognitive functioning scores than leukemia patients (difference = 12.65 ± 4.74, p-value = 0.023). Conclusion Palliative care is needed to relieve the symptom burden and enhance the psycho-social functioning of pediatric oncology patients.

SUPPORTING PAPER SET

32 more papers to review

Ranked by current scoring engine
1 A Longitudinal Observational Mixed Methods Cohort Study of the Psychosocial and Financial Costs of Cancer Care for Pediatric Families in the Maritimes, Canada. Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center 68.1 2 Impact of multidrug resistant bloodstream infection burden, prophylactic levofloxacin and rectal swab practice on children with high-risk leukemias. Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego 74.66 3 Case Report: Primary Cutaneous Aspergillosis in a Neutropenic Child with Pulmonary Dissemination: A case report. F1000Research 55.5 4 NIH funding in the biophotonics community. Biophotonics discovery 57.5 5 Giant Cell Tumor of the Distal Humerus: A Rare Location With a Good Response to Denosumab. Cureus 62.42 6 Peripheral Blasts at Apheresis as a Risk Factor for Survival following Tisagenlecleucel in Children and Young Adults. Blood advances 72.82 7 Envenomation-Induced Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH): First Reported Adult Case Following A Spider Bite. European journal of case reports in internal medicine 63.5 8 Rare mandibular metastasis of neuroblastoma in a child: a case report. Frontiers in dental medicine 52.3 9 Rising burden of early-onset lung cancer among Chinese adolescents and young adults (1990-2023): a Bayesian age-period-cohort analysis with projections to 2038. Frontiers in medicine 57.5 10 Immune microenvironment of infantile hemangioma: cellular dynamics, molecular networks, and emerging immunomodulatory strategies. Frontiers in immunology 67.8 11 Intranodal palisaded myofibroblastoma of the supraclavicular region in an adolescent with an HDAC2 variant: a case report. Frontiers in medicine 45.5 12 Development and validation of a prediction model for 6-month early death in pediatric H3K27M-mutant diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). Translational pediatrics 66.3 13 Radiofrequency ablation for severe hemangiomas with thrombocytopenia and coagulation abnormalities (Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon). Translational pediatrics 63.6 14 Global burden and trends of tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer in adolescents and young adults: a secondary analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Journal of thoracic disease 67.9 15 Molecularly guided management of pediatric endobronchial inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: a report of two cases on surgical and targeted intervention. Translational pediatrics 64.7 16 Stage-associated differences in injury and stress responses of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes under macrophage-derived inflammatory stimulation. Translational pediatrics 51.62 17 Glycyrrhizin alleviates Mycoplasma pneumoniae-induced acute lung injury in mice by regulating ferroptosis via the GPX4/ACSL4 axis. Journal of thoracic disease 58.0 18 Traditional Chinese medicine combined with conventional Western medicine for chronic cough following respiratory infection in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Translational pediatrics 84.2 19 A taurine metabolism-related gene program defines clinical and biological features of neuroblastoma and yields an 8-gene candidate prognostic model. Translational pediatrics 58.7 20 Diagnostic and therapeutic value of double-balloon enteroscopy in pediatric patients with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Translational pediatrics 64.74 21 Intratumoral and peritumoral-based radiomics for assessment of lymphovascular invasion in invasive breast cancer: model development and validation. Translational cancer research 64.9 22 Development and validation of a predictive model for thyroid nodule malignancy risk based on intralesional and perilesional ultrasound radiomic features. Gland surgery 67.0 23 Advanced esophageal adenocarcinoma in a pediatric patient with Down syndrome: a rare case report and literature review. Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) 55.4 24 First case description of a highly aggressive thoracopulmonary primitive neuroectodermal tumor in a Moroccan adult male. Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) 56.7 25 DAT-negative autoimmune hemolytic anemia following acute hepatitis a in a pediatric patient with elevated IgA: a rare case report and literature review. Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) 55.0 26 Exploring New Frontiers in Osteosarcoma Treatment: Clinical Trial Insights. Recent patents on anti-cancer drug discovery 85.44 27 Pediatric low-grade glial, glioneuronal and neuronal tumors: a retrospective study of 85 cases. Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 63.0 28 Outcomes of Pediatric Precursor B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Tertiary Care Cancer Center Experience from a Lower-Middle-Income Country. Journal of cancer & allied specialties 67.4 29 Long-Term Survival Patterns in Childhood B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Resource-Constrained Countries. Journal of cancer & allied specialties 74.42 30 Outcomes of Methotrexate-Based Therapy for Paediatric Osteosarcoma: A Decade of Experience from a Cancer Centre in Pakistan. Journal of cancer & allied specialties 71.74 31 Late Anthracycline Cardiotoxicity Mimicking Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy in a Young Adult. JACC. Case reports 55.62 32 Spontaneous complete regression of congenital brain tumors - a systematic literature review and case report. Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 66.0
PATIENT-FRIENDLY SUMMARY

Quality of Life in Pediatric Oncology Patients in Lebanon (2014-2019): A Multi-center Study.

For education only—not personal medical advice.

Pediatric cancer research intelligence graphic
PEDIATRIC CANCER VISUAL SYSTEM

Open the Research Intelligence Map

Explore the active pediatric oncology analysis view.

Expand Intelligence View →
Full Pediatric cancer research intelligence graphic