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Prevalence physical and psychological symptoms in BCS (entire sample)
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Background: Endocrine treatment (ET) is a highly effective breast cancer treatment but can distinctly impair breast cancer patients’ quality of life (QOL). In a patient-reported outcome (PROs) study conducted by the authors in 2011, patients reported higher ET-induced symptom levels than known from the registration trials, and was underestimated. B...
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... the typically ET-related symptoms joint pain, lack of energy and mood swings were highly prevalent at the follow-up assessment time point. Details are presented in Tables 2-4. Regarding the effect of age -independent from the treatment received -on symptom change over time, we found no difference for most symptoms across age groups (results not shown) with the exception of vaginal discharge (p < 0.001), headaches (p = 0.023) and mood swings (p < 0.001) (details in Table 5). ...Similar publications
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