PURPOSE: to estimate the quality of life and associated factors in a sample of patients with laryngeal tumor, in Southeastern Brazil. METHOD: sample of 60 patients treated for laryngeal cancer in two hospitals in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais (Brazil), city and regional center of excellence for the treatment of head and neck cancers in southeastern Brazil. With the application of the questionnaire Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy-Head & Neck, data were collected and submitted to bivariate and multivariate analysis to demonstrate the involvement of variables in the quality of life of institutions of tertiary care for treatment of cancer. RESULTS: in bivariate analysis (p ≤ 0.20) were significant variables: gender, years of education, analysis of treatment received, speech therapy and nutrition. After multivariate analysis also demonstrated an independent association: analysis of treatment received, speech therapy and nutrition. CONCLUSIONS: the quality of life of patients in the study can be evaluated as satisfactory, being influenced by the physical well-being and functional. The questionnaire Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy-Head & Neck, specific for head and neck, showed that economic factors, clinical and functional, demographic are also linked to quality of life of patients with laryngeal cancer. Also demonstrated was the importance of speech therapy and nutritional rehabilitation treatment gain in quality of life of patients.
Epidemiology; Laryngeal Neoplasms; Quality of Life
