Post-treatment problems of African American breast cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

African American breast cancer survivors (AABCS) have a lower survival rate across all disease stages (79 %) compared with White survivors (92 %) and often have more aggressive forms of breast cancer requiring multimodality treatment, so they could experience a larger burden of post-treatment quality of life (QOL) problems. This paper reports a comprehensive assessment of the number, severity, and domains of problems faced by AABCS within 5 years after treatment completion and identifies subgroups at risk for these problems.

Methods

A population-based random sample was obtained from the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry of African American females over 18 years of age who completed primary treatment for breast cancer in the past 5 years. A mailed survey was used to docume

SUBMITTER: Barsevick AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5539961 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature