A randomized study to improve care for young women with breast cancer at community and academic medical oncology practices in the United States: The Young and Strong study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The authors conducted a cluster randomized study to determine the effect of an exportable educational intervention for young women with breast cancer (YWI) on improving care. METHODS:Sites were randomized 1:1 to the YWI or a contact time control physical activity intervention (PAI) stratified by academic or community site. Up to 15 women aged ≤45 years with newly diagnosed breast cancer were enrolled at each of 14 academic sites and 10 were enrolled at each of 40 community sites. The primary endpoint, attention to fertility, was ascertained by medical record review. Statistical inferences concerning the effect of the intervention used general estimating equations for clustered data. RESULTS:A total of 467 patients across 54 sites were enrolled between July 2012 and December 2013

SUBMITTER: Partridge AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6508998 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature