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SUBMITTER: Tae CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7174391 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tae Chung Hyun CH Shim Ki-Nam KN Kim Byung-Wook BW Kim Jie-Hyun JH Hong Su Jin SJ Baik Gwang Ho GH Song Hyun Joo HJ Kim Yong Sung YS Jang Seung-Ho SH Jung Hye-Kyung HK
Scientific reports 20200421 1
Quality of life (QoL) has become an important issue after early gastric cancer (EGC) treatment. We aimed to compare the QoL of EGC survivors after ESD (n = 241) or laparoscopic subtotal gastrectomy (n = 241) without recurrence and to evaluate the QoL over the 5-year period after adjusting for various confounding factors related to QoL. QoL related to the gastric cancer subscale (GCS) was significantly higher in the ESD group than surgery group (p < 0.001). After adjusting for all possible confou ...[more]