Data for: Assessment of quality of life (QoL) in cancer patients

Background: A cancer patient's quality of life (QoL) is the perception of their physical, functional, psychological, and social well-being as well as their mental and emotional state. QoL is one of the most important factors to consider when a person is being treated for cancer and during follow-up. The present study aimed to understand the status of QoL of cancer patients and determine the factors affecting it.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 210 cancer patients attending the oncology unit of a medical college, within a 4-month consecutive time period in 2022. Data were collected by using the Bengali version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer questionnaire.
Results: The present study reported a high number of female cancer patients (67.6%). Breast cancer was more common among females (31.43%) while lung and upper respiratory tract cancer was among males (19.05). Most of the patients in the present study were diagnosed with cancer i..., The study proposal and consent form were approved by the Ethics Committee. The present study was conducted in the Oncology Unit of a medical college within a 4-month consecutive time period in 2022. The expected number of new cancer patients visiting the department was 400 during the study period. We chose p = 0.50, q = 0.50, Z = 1.96, and E = 0.04 for N = 400, and the minimum sample size was calculated to be n = 196. For the purpose of this study, permission was sought from European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) to use the Bengali version of their EORTC QLQ C30 questionnaire. EORTC provided the research tool and scoring manuals for the study. The 30-item questionnaire covers 15 domains which consist of five functioning scales (physical functioning, social functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning, and cognitive functioning) and nine symptom scales (fatigue, pain, nausea/vomiting, dyspnea, sleep disturbances, appetite loss, diarrhea, constipation, ..., The identifying information in the dataset is limited to three variables and other variables are removed (religion, district, marital status, education, employment, economic status, duration of hospitalization [as this in combination with survey date can be an identifier], cancer type, stage, and treatment). These modifications were required for dataset approval.
The collected data were entered into an Excel worksheet, exported to SPSS v 21, and analyzed. The descriptive statistics were used to describe the mean, the standard deviation (SD), and the cancer type, stage, and treatment distribution.