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Depression in older breast cancer survivors
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among U.S. women .The 5-year survival rate for this tumour is nowadays 85%, and the 61% of these women are still alive at 15 years. When depression symptoms are present as a consequence of breast cancer treatments, they may interfere ne...
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3499203/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23173836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-12-S1-S14 |
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author | Frazzetto, Paola Vacante, Marco Malaguarnera, Michele Vinci, Ernesto Catalano, Francesca Cataudella, Emanuela Drago, Filippo Malaguarnera, Giulia Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio |
author_facet | Frazzetto, Paola Vacante, Marco Malaguarnera, Michele Vinci, Ernesto Catalano, Francesca Cataudella, Emanuela Drago, Filippo Malaguarnera, Giulia Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio |
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description | BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among U.S. women .The 5-year survival rate for this tumour is nowadays 85%, and the 61% of these women are still alive at 15 years. When depression symptoms are present as a consequence of breast cancer treatments, they may interfere negatively with patients’ quality of life. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of breast cancer treatment on the quality of life and the impact of depression on the health-related life. METHODS: We enrolled 173 women aged 65-75 years with early stage breast cancer diagnosed over the last 10 years, initially recruited to participate in a study examining heath-related quality of life in the first 5 years after breast cancer diagnosis. Participants were divided into four groups: 1) 46 breast cancer survivors (aged 65-70); 2) 62 women diagnosed with breast cancer (aged 65-69); 3) 32 women with recurrent breast cancer after 10 years (aged 66-75); 4) 30 women in good health status (aged 60-70). The Geriatric Depression Scale was used as a routine part of a comprehensive geriatric assessment. Collection of data for the application of instruments, such as sociodemographic variables (age, educational level, social state) and clinical date (stage and time of the disease and treatment), was carried out by trained researcher assistants. RESULTS: Our results demonstrated the correlation between depression and previous cancer experiences. In fact, in patients with cancer experience, the grade of depression was significantly higher compared to healthy subjects. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the patients with recurrent breast cancer were severely depressed compared to other groups. CONCLUSIONS: A high percentage of participants were identified as having emotional and/or well being problems. Further investigations on the cause of depression problems cancer-related are needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-34992032012-11-20 Depression in older breast cancer survivors Frazzetto, Paola Vacante, Marco Malaguarnera, Michele Vinci, Ernesto Catalano, Francesca Cataudella, Emanuela Drago, Filippo Malaguarnera, Giulia Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio BMC Surg Research Article BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among U.S. women .The 5-year survival rate for this tumour is nowadays 85%, and the 61% of these women are still alive at 15 years. When depression symptoms are present as a consequence of breast cancer treatments, they may interfere negatively with patients’ quality of life. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of breast cancer treatment on the quality of life and the impact of depression on the health-related life. METHODS: We enrolled 173 women aged 65-75 years with early stage breast cancer diagnosed over the last 10 years, initially recruited to participate in a study examining heath-related quality of life in the first 5 years after breast cancer diagnosis. Participants were divided into four groups: 1) 46 breast cancer survivors (aged 65-70); 2) 62 women diagnosed with breast cancer (aged 65-69); 3) 32 women with recurrent breast cancer after 10 years (aged 66-75); 4) 30 women in good health status (aged 60-70). The Geriatric Depression Scale was used as a routine part of a comprehensive geriatric assessment. Collection of data for the application of instruments, such as sociodemographic variables (age, educational level, social state) and clinical date (stage and time of the disease and treatment), was carried out by trained researcher assistants. RESULTS: Our results demonstrated the correlation between depression and previous cancer experiences. In fact, in patients with cancer experience, the grade of depression was significantly higher compared to healthy subjects. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the patients with recurrent breast cancer were severely depressed compared to other groups. CONCLUSIONS: A high percentage of participants were identified as having emotional and/or well being problems. Further investigations on the cause of depression problems cancer-related are needed. BioMed Central 2012-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3499203/ /pubmed/23173836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-12-S1-S14 Text en Copyright ©2012 Frazzetto et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Frazzetto, Paola Vacante, Marco Malaguarnera, Michele Vinci, Ernesto Catalano, Francesca Cataudella, Emanuela Drago, Filippo Malaguarnera, Giulia Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio Depression in older breast cancer survivors |
title | Depression in older breast cancer survivors |
title_full | Depression in older breast cancer survivors |
title_fullStr | Depression in older breast cancer survivors |
title_full_unstemmed | Depression in older breast cancer survivors |
title_short | Depression in older breast cancer survivors |
title_sort | depression in older breast cancer survivors |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3499203/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23173836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-12-S1-S14 |
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