Comparison of short-term and long-term qualities of life after curative gastrectomy in patients with gastric cancer

초록

In the patients who underwent gastrectomy for gastric cancer, long-term survivors showed better QoL scores compared with 1 year survovors in most respect. It seemed that, with time, the impact on QoL after gastrectomy of various clinicopathologic factors except gender disappeared after 3 years.