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Quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs
Objective: We conducted a cross sectional study to investigate the quality of life (QOL) in breast cancer patients after treatment for one year and identify factors which may facilitate improvements in health care for breast cancer. Methods: A total of 154 patients of breast cancer were collected fr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24639845 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.301.3952 |
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author | Hong-li, Chen Xiao-chun, Wang Jiang-bin, Wang Jing-bo, Zhang Yao, Wang |
author_facet | Hong-li, Chen Xiao-chun, Wang Jiang-bin, Wang Jing-bo, Zhang Yao, Wang |
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description | Objective: We conducted a cross sectional study to investigate the quality of life (QOL) in breast cancer patients after treatment for one year and identify factors which may facilitate improvements in health care for breast cancer. Methods: A total of 154 patients of breast cancer were collected from The First Affiliated Hospital of Harerbin Medical University during May 2008 and May 2010, and they were divided into three groups. The quality of life was assessed by Functional assessment of cancer therapy- breast (FACT-B) version 4, and a semi-structured interview was used to investigate the information and rehabilitation needs of the breast cancer patients. Results : Group II had the best social well-being, functional well-being and Total FACT-G among the three groups. Group III had the best physical well-being, emotional well-being, breast specific subscales, total FACT-B and TOI among the three groups. Higher PWB scores were significantly correlation with lower tumor stage; increased SWB scores were significantly correlated with education and occupation, and lower EWB scores were correlated with younger aged women and higher tumor stage (< 40 years). The semi-structured investigation showed all of them want to receive tumor markers detection and PET scan to prevent recurrence. 56% of these patients were worried about symptoms. 42% of the patients reported they had restriction in sexual relationship, and 57% wanted to improve their body image and reconstruction surgery. Conclusions: Breast cancer patients should be followed up for their quality of life and provided effective therapy for their physical and psychological problems. |
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spelling | pubmed-39555562014-03-17 Quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs Hong-li, Chen Xiao-chun, Wang Jiang-bin, Wang Jing-bo, Zhang Yao, Wang Pak J Med Sci Original Article Objective: We conducted a cross sectional study to investigate the quality of life (QOL) in breast cancer patients after treatment for one year and identify factors which may facilitate improvements in health care for breast cancer. Methods: A total of 154 patients of breast cancer were collected from The First Affiliated Hospital of Harerbin Medical University during May 2008 and May 2010, and they were divided into three groups. The quality of life was assessed by Functional assessment of cancer therapy- breast (FACT-B) version 4, and a semi-structured interview was used to investigate the information and rehabilitation needs of the breast cancer patients. Results : Group II had the best social well-being, functional well-being and Total FACT-G among the three groups. Group III had the best physical well-being, emotional well-being, breast specific subscales, total FACT-B and TOI among the three groups. Higher PWB scores were significantly correlation with lower tumor stage; increased SWB scores were significantly correlated with education and occupation, and lower EWB scores were correlated with younger aged women and higher tumor stage (< 40 years). The semi-structured investigation showed all of them want to receive tumor markers detection and PET scan to prevent recurrence. 56% of these patients were worried about symptoms. 42% of the patients reported they had restriction in sexual relationship, and 57% wanted to improve their body image and reconstruction surgery. Conclusions: Breast cancer patients should be followed up for their quality of life and provided effective therapy for their physical and psychological problems. Professional Medical Publicaitons 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3955556/ /pubmed/24639845 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.301.3952 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Hong-li, Chen Xiao-chun, Wang Jiang-bin, Wang Jing-bo, Zhang Yao, Wang Quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs |
title | Quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs |
title_full | Quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs |
title_fullStr | Quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs |
title_short | Quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs |
title_sort | quality of life in patients with breast cancer and their rehabilitation needs |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24639845 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.301.3952 |
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