Clinical and sociodemographic determinants of disease-specific health-related quality of life in long-term breast cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

It is important to monitor disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in breast cancer (BC) survivors to identify potential unmet supportive care needs. However, previous studies were characterized by small samples of mostly short-term survivors and were limited to certain age ranges, stages and/or treatments.

Methods

We used data from 3045 long-term BC survivors (5-15 years post-diagnosis) recruited in a German multi-regional population-based study. We assessed disease-specific HRQoL with the EORTC QLQ-BR23, scoring from 0 to 100. Differences in functioning and symptoms according to age at survey, self-reported treatments, stage, and disease status (disease-free vs. active disease) were assessed with multiple regression. Active disease was defined as an

SUBMITTER: Doege D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9587098 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature