QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN GLIOMAS
The study of the quality of life of patients with glial brain tumors is an extremely urgent problem in medicine. Due to the fact that neurooncological diseases have an unfavorable prognosis, improving the quality of life becomes a key point in the management of this category of patients. In addition, epileptic seizures, which are a frequent companion of gliomas, further exacerbate the patient's condition. As a result, the aim of our study was to study the factors affecting the quality of life of patients with glial brain tumors in the preoperative period. Our study involved 26 patients with glial tumors of various degrees of malignancy. We evaluated the quality of life using the Quality of Life in Epilepsy 31. The results obtained for each of the subscales are summarized and transformed into points, where higher values reflect a higher level of quality of life. We assessed the impact on the quality of life of such criteria as gender, age, the presence of epileptic seizures before surgery, the possibility of self-service, the involvement of functionally active areas of the brain, grade of tumor malignancy. When assessing each criterion, patients were divided into groups, between which a comparative analysis was carried out. The obtained result indicates a significant decrease in the quality of life in patients with gliomas with epileptic seizures. When evaluating the remaining criteria, no statistically significant differences in the quality of life indicators were obtained, which can be explained by the insufficient sensitivity of this questionnaire in relation to other manifestations of brain gliomas.