Communicating prognosis to women with early breast cancer - overview of prediction tools and the development and pilot testing of a decision aid.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Shared decision-making in oncology requires information on individual prognosis. This comprises cancer prognosis as well as competing risks of dying due to age and comorbidities. Decision aids usually do not provide such information on competing risks. We conducted an overview on clinical prediction tools for early breast cancer and developed and pilot-tested a decision aid (DA) addressing individual prognosis using additional chemotherapy in early, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer as an example.

Methods

Systematic literature search on clinical prediction tools for the effects of drug treatment on survival of breast cancer. The DA was developed following criteria for evidence-based patient information and International Patient Decision Aids Standards. We in

SUBMITTER: Muhlbauer V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420759 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature