Abstract

Introduction: Research on life quality of cancer patients allows giving the attention back to the patient and his/her needs. Materials and Methods: FACT-G survey was performed to 77 terminal cancer patients on the Palliative Care and Pain-Relief unit from Iquique's General Hospital. Results: Physical welfare was evaluated with a 21.22 out of a maximum of 28, social/familiar welfare had a 12.57 over 28, emotional welfare was 16 over 24 and functional welfare had 17.33 over 28. Final score, which represents the sum of the four prior divisions, with a scale from 0 to 108, was 67.62% of the maximum score. Conclusions: Performance of life quality surveys is feasible for cancer patients, and allows us to make specific interventions on the patient and his/her close ones to improve his/her life quality.