الفهرس 
INCIDENCE AND MORTALITYOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
ynaecologic cancers are malignancies that starts in women’s reproductive organs including five main types which are cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, and vulvar cancer. Relatively little is known about the determinants of QOL in women with gynaecologic malignancies and what can impact it, including matters of sexuality and intimacy. Vast amount of evidence exists showing that cancer dramatically impacts woman’s sexuality, sexual functioning, intimate relationships and sense of self where sexual functioning itself can be affected by illness, pain, anxiety, stressful circumstances and medications. With improvements in early detection, surgery and adjuvant therapy for gynaecologic cancers, long term survival and cure are becoming possible, thus quality of life is becoming a major issue for patients and should be addressed by providers.
Aim of the this study was to assess the quality of life of gynaecological cancer patients and to detect any sexual dysfunction in women undergoing treatment or being seen in follow-up for gynaecologic cancers in Clinical Oncology department Ain Shams University.
In this cross sectional study Data were collected from females attending the chemotherapy and gynaecological outpatient clinic in the clinical oncology department at Ain Shams University Hospitals. Patients were chosen according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and were asked to participate in the research. We chose patients who were below equal or below 65 years old, histo-pathologically proved to have gynaecological cancer, married, stage 1 to stage 4, patients reciving any active treatment or on follow up. We excluded patients who did not have any oncological management, with history of other malignancies and those who were unable to answer questionnaires due to cognitive reasons. Sampling method was through convenient sampling, 66 Patients agreed to participate and were questioned privately, an informed consent was obtained from all participants.
Overall there was a strong positive significant correlation between the quality of life and sexual functioning, few patient demographics were found to have significant effect on sexuality and quality of life where lubrication was significantly affected by female genital mutilation, age was significantly correlated to both the SWB and EWB, also the SWB was affected by marital years as regard to effect of treatment PWB was significantly affected by time from last chemotherapy received and lubrication was also affected by radiotherapy
In conclusion, quality of life is strongly correlated to sexual functioning which is considered an integral part of patient’s lives that must be assessed and followed for gynecological cancer patients as patients don’t get to express their concerns about their sexual health.