Symptom burden among older breast cancer survivors: The Thinking and Living With Cancer (TLC) study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about longitudinal symptom burden, its consequences for well-being, and whether lifestyle moderates the burden in older survivors.

Methods

The authors report on 36-month data from survivors aged ≥60 years with newly diagnosed, nonmetastatic breast cancer and noncancer controls recruited from August 2010 through June 2016. Symptom burden was measured as the sum of self-reported symptoms/diseases as follows: pain (yes or no), fatigue (on the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy [FACT]-Fatigue scale), cognitive (on the FACT-Cognitive scale), sleep problems (yes or no), depression (on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale), anxiety (on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory), and cardiac problems and neuropathy (yes or no). Well-being was

SUBMITTER: Mandelblatt JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7255412 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature