Table 3.

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients (r_s) between factors potentially influencing health-related life quality.

Variables	EQ-5D-5L Before	EQ-5D-5L After	BMI	Age	From First Symptoms to Final Diagnosis	Time of Hospitalization	Duration of Disease
All patients
EQ-5D-5L before	-	0.31	0.30	0.41	0.55 *	0.05	0.43
EQ-5D-5L after	0.31	-	0.10	−0.21	0.03	−0.42	−0.05
Stage I patients
EQ-5D-5L before	-	−0.44	−0.63	0.89 *	−0.89 *	0.66	−0.79
EQ-5D-5L after	−0.44	-	0.59	−0.67	0.67	−0.89 *	0.89 *

* p < 0.050. Legend: BMI, body mass index; EQ-5D-5L, questionnaire of health-related life quality.