生活质量评价在食管癌外科治疗中的应用

Quality of life scale in esophageal carcinoma surgical treatment

生活质量（QOL）是健康和病情变化的评价指标，能全面地反应食管癌的治疗效果。有研究表明QOL评价为食管癌外科治疗的手术方式、淋巴结清扫、消化道重建等方面提供了新的选择。QOL评价的深入研究运用，将进一步提高外科治疗效果，改善食管癌患者的QOL。

Surgery is still the basic treatment of esophageal carcinoma. Quality of life, a new evaluation criterion for the health and disease, reflects the surgical outcome of esophageal cancer comprehensively. The findings of clinical research demonstrate that in the surgical treatment of esophageal carcinoma, quality of life could provide us with new selections such as surgical method, lymph node dissection and digestive tract reconstruction. Further application of quality of life scale in esophageal carcinoma surgical treatment, will greatly enhance the surgical outcome and improve patients＇quality of life.