The incidence and mortality of oesophagus cancer patients in Assam is very high which necessatitates the improvement of rehabilitation and palliative care condition on them. Thus the study of Quality of life is very essential among them which usually measure the status of rehabilitation and palliative care. Inspiring from these facts, a study was initiated to assess the quality of life condition of oesohagus cancer patients of Assam by using EORTC QLQ-C30 quality of life measuring instrument.

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... e study was conducted in Assam Medical College and Hospital during 2010 and 2011. This paper tries to focus on the impact of age on the quality of life of patients. A total of 153 oeophagus cancer patients were included in the study. Quality of life condition was evaluated before treatment and after treatment. The results of the study showed that before treatment almost all the different dimension of functional scale and symptom scale have influenced on age. But after treatment, patients belonging to different age groups reported similar pattern of quality of life on different functional and symptom scales. This may be due to the fact that cancer directed treatments are usually related with different side effects which side lines the influence of age on quality of life.