Survival chances and psychological aspects of quality of life in patients with localized early stage breast cancer

Inflammation Research : Official Journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et Al.]
U-S AlbertK-D Schulz

Abstract

The present analysis focuses on the long term psychological reactions to early stage breast cancer. Two hypotheses were formulated. The first hypothesis draws a direct link between tumour size/survival chances and Quality of life (QoL): The better the survival chances, the better QoL ('biological danger model'). The second hypothesis assumes that localized early breast cancer has excellent prognosis (> 90% five year survival rate), and that therefore QoL differences between various forms of early breast cancer should be minimal ('medico-pragmatic model'). In a defined rural area with 252.000 inhabitants (small-area-analysis), a total of n = 389 patients with primary breast cancer were recruited. For the present analysis we selected a subgroup (n = 269) from the cohort by tumour size (pTis, pT1a,b, pT1c, and pT2). QoL scores for global quality of life, emotional functioning and future perspective were computed according to the EORTC manual and compared to age-matched norm data of the German population. A total of 690 QoL questionnaires were obtained from n = 269 patients with comparable completion rates within the four subgroups (pTis, pT1a,b, pT1c, and pT2). For all four groups and in all scores there were improvements over tim...Continue Reading

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