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How breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in Greece
BACKGROUND: The continuously increasing survivorship of female breast cancer makes the monitoring and improvement of patients’ quality of life ever so important. While globally there is a growing body of research on health-related quality of life 1 year after surgical treatment for non-metastatic br...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507267/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32957940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-020-00871-z |
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author | Yfantis, Aris Sarafis, Pavlos Moisoglou, Ioannis Tolia, Maria Intas, George Tiniakou, Ioanna Zografos, Konstantinos Zografos, George Constantinou, Marianna Nikolentzos, Athanasios Kontos, Michalis |
author_facet | Yfantis, Aris Sarafis, Pavlos Moisoglou, Ioannis Tolia, Maria Intas, George Tiniakou, Ioanna Zografos, Konstantinos Zografos, George Constantinou, Marianna Nikolentzos, Athanasios Kontos, Michalis |
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description | BACKGROUND: The continuously increasing survivorship of female breast cancer makes the monitoring and improvement of patients’ quality of life ever so important. While globally there is a growing body of research on health-related quality of life 1 year after surgical treatment for non-metastatic breast cancer, up-to-date information regarding Greek patients is scarce. OBJECTIVE: To measure the level of QoL of non-metastatic BC survivors in Greece 1 year after surgery. METHODS: A sample of 200 female breast cancer survivors aged 18 to 75, who followed up as outpatients in five public hospitals were included in this cross-sectional study. All recruited patients agreed to participate in the study (100% response rate). Quality of life data were collected through the EORTC QLQ-C30 as well as BR23 questionnaires. RESULTS: Cronbach’s alpha for all scales of the two questionnaires was from 0.551 to 0.936 indicating very good reliability. According to the Multiple Linear Regression, older patients showed a lower future perspective (p = .031), with those living in rural areas, which was associated with more financial difficulties (p = .001). Women with tertiary education and those who had been hospitalized in a university hospital recorded better on global health status (p = .003 and .000 respectively). Patients who underwent chemotherapy reported better scores in the emotional function sub-scale (p = .025). Women with reconstruction and at least one complication appeared to have significantly better scores in future perspective and social function (p = .005, .002 respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Breast cancer survivors were found to have an overall good quality of life, functioning/symptoms scores and were satisfied with the provided care. |
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spelling | pubmed-75072672020-09-23 How breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in Greece Yfantis, Aris Sarafis, Pavlos Moisoglou, Ioannis Tolia, Maria Intas, George Tiniakou, Ioanna Zografos, Konstantinos Zografos, George Constantinou, Marianna Nikolentzos, Athanasios Kontos, Michalis BMC Surg Research Article BACKGROUND: The continuously increasing survivorship of female breast cancer makes the monitoring and improvement of patients’ quality of life ever so important. While globally there is a growing body of research on health-related quality of life 1 year after surgical treatment for non-metastatic breast cancer, up-to-date information regarding Greek patients is scarce. OBJECTIVE: To measure the level of QoL of non-metastatic BC survivors in Greece 1 year after surgery. METHODS: A sample of 200 female breast cancer survivors aged 18 to 75, who followed up as outpatients in five public hospitals were included in this cross-sectional study. All recruited patients agreed to participate in the study (100% response rate). Quality of life data were collected through the EORTC QLQ-C30 as well as BR23 questionnaires. RESULTS: Cronbach’s alpha for all scales of the two questionnaires was from 0.551 to 0.936 indicating very good reliability. According to the Multiple Linear Regression, older patients showed a lower future perspective (p = .031), with those living in rural areas, which was associated with more financial difficulties (p = .001). Women with tertiary education and those who had been hospitalized in a university hospital recorded better on global health status (p = .003 and .000 respectively). Patients who underwent chemotherapy reported better scores in the emotional function sub-scale (p = .025). Women with reconstruction and at least one complication appeared to have significantly better scores in future perspective and social function (p = .005, .002 respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Breast cancer survivors were found to have an overall good quality of life, functioning/symptoms scores and were satisfied with the provided care. BioMed Central 2020-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7507267/ /pubmed/32957940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-020-00871-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Yfantis, Aris Sarafis, Pavlos Moisoglou, Ioannis Tolia, Maria Intas, George Tiniakou, Ioanna Zografos, Konstantinos Zografos, George Constantinou, Marianna Nikolentzos, Athanasios Kontos, Michalis How breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in Greece |
title | How breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in Greece |
title_full | How breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in Greece |
title_fullStr | How breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in Greece |
title_full_unstemmed | How breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in Greece |
title_short | How breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in Greece |
title_sort | how breast cancer treatments affect the quality of life of women with non-metastatic breast cancer one year after surgical treatment: a cross-sectional study in greece |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507267/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32957940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-020-00871-z |
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