Late effects are usually defined as disease- or treatment-related side effects that occur or persist more than three months after treatment. While the majority of ENT studies look at late effects within five years of treatment, this project focuses on long-term ENT survivors who have received treatment on average 8 years ago.

The aim of the PhD project is to study the long-term effects on body image, sexual health, and fatigue/disability after treatment of ear, nose and throat cancer. The project is part of PROCCA (Protons contra cancer): UiO: Life Science - convergence environment.

The project contains three sub-studies. The aim of sub-study 1 is to determine the prevalence of body image disorder in long-term survivors of ENT in our sample and to investigate associations between socio-demographic, clinical and functional factors and body image. Substudy 2 examines the prevalence of fatigue and explores the association between sociodemographic, clinical, functional factors and fatigue/disability in long-term ENT survivors. The aim of sub-study 3 is to study issues related to intimacy and sexuality after cancer treatment.

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