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STRAHLENTHERAPIE UND ONKOLOGIE
卷 181, 期 10, 页码 645-651出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-005-1403-x
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breast cancer; conformal 3-D radiotherapy; health-related quality of life; hormonal therapy; chemotherapy
Purpose: To prospectively assess health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in women after conserving surgery for breast cancer during/after postoperative 3-D radiotherapy. Patients and Methods: 109 consecutively treated patients were analyzed. HR-QoL was assessed at initiation (t1), end (t2), and 6 weeks after radiotherapy (t3) using the EORTC modules QLQ-C30/BR23. Patients were divided into three therapy groups. Group I comprised 41 patients (radiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy), group 1145 patients (radiotherapy and adjuvant hormonal therapy), and group 11123 patients (radiotherapy atone). Retiability was tested. Scale means were calculated. Univariate (ANOVA) and multivariate (MANCOVA) analyses were performed. Results: Reliability testing revealed mean Cronbach's alpha > 0.70 at all measurement points. ANOVA/MANCOVA statistics revealed significantly better HR-QoL for patients in group II versus I. Patients receiving radiotherapy atone (group III) showed the best results in HR-QoL. However, scale mean differences between groups II and III were not significant. Conclusion: HR-QoL measurement using EORTC instruments during/after radiotherapy is reliable. Adjuvant chemotherapy significantly lowered HR-QoL versus hormones or radiotherapy atone. Chemotherapy patients did not recover Longitudinally (from t1 to t3).
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