Quality of life in women with breast cancer

Although mortality rates from breast cancer are declining, many breast cancer patients will experience physical and psychological sequelae that affect their everyday lives. The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a descriptive study that evaluated the quality of life in this patients.Methods: During October-December 2014, A total of 148 women referred to the Cancer Institute; Imam Khomeini Medical Center with breast cancer participated in a cross-sectional study.The subjects received EORTC QLQ-C30 instruments and a demographic questionnaire. All data was analyzed using SPSS 16 software.Result: The mean age was 47.62 years (SD=1.01).The most participant were married(%76.4) and had a basic level of education. The total mean score for quality of life was 43.86±2.35 (range; 0 to 100). More severe limitations were observed for the emotional and social functioning scales and for the symptom subscales of fatigue and insomnia. The highest mean was for the cognitive functioning scale. Conclusions: Deficits in emotional and social functioning and specific limitations like fatigue and insomnia and financial difficulties are main factors hampering the QOL among braest cancer patients and seem to affect predominantly younger patients

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breast cancer ، quality of life ، EORTC QLQ-C30