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Pretreatment quality of life, performance status and their relation to treatment discontinuation and treatment changes in high-risk breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: results from the prospective randomized ADEBAR trial.

Document type:
Journal Article; Multicenter Study; Randomized Controlled Trial; Article
Author(s):
Eichler, Martin; Singer, Susanne; Janni, Wolfgang; Harbeck, Nadia; Rack, Brigitte; Augustin, Doris; Wischnik, Arthur; Kiechle, Marion; Ettl, Johannes; Scholz, Christoph; Fink, Visnja; Schwentner, Lukas
Abstract:
Health-related quality of life (QoL) is a self-assessed construct indicating how people feel in regard to aspects of their health. Performance status (PS) is evaluated by the treating physician. We examined whether pretreatment QoL and PS are related to subsequent treatment discontinuation and treatment changes in high-risk breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.We conducted a prospective cohort study with data from a randomized phase III trial comparing FEC- and EC-DOC-chemotherapy in pa...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Breast Cancer
Year:
2017
Journal volume:
24
Journal issue:
2
Pages contribution:
319-325
Language:
eng
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1007/s12282-016-0706-3
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27262301
Print-ISSN:
1340-6868
TUM Institution:
Frauenklinik und Poliklinik
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