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Artigo Científico Acesso fechado Qualidade de vida de sobreviventes de sarcoma quando crianças, adolescentes e adultos jovens: uma revisão da literatura(2020) Ferreira, Joice MayraObjective: To summarize the quality of life (QOL) outcomes present in treated patients and sarcoma survivors as children, adolescents and young adults. In addition, to present which instruments are most frequently used to assess this population. Methods: This is a literature review with scientific articles published in the last 10 years on the subject (2010-2020). The search was performed in the Embase, Medline, PubMed and Web of Science databases. A total of 241 articles were found, of which, after applying the eligibility requirements, 11 articles were included in this review. Results: In the research included in this study, 11 different instruments were used to measure QOL, with SF-36 (n = 4) and PedsQL (n = 3) the most used. The most studied sarcomas were osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma, and soft tissue sarcomas appeared in the sample of four studies. In all surveys, the age of most participants was less than 39 years old, both at diagnosis and treatment and at the time of the survey. Conclusions: The findings of this review suggest that survivors of sarcoma as children, adolescents and young adults have worse QoL, especially in the physical domains when compared to healthy controls. Marriage and the presence of children may favor higher QOL scores, as well as those submitted to conservative limb surgery. Further studies in the area and the creation and standardization of instruments to measure the QOL in this population are necessary, since the survival of these patients has increased and the QOL has decreased.