Longitudinal data from 195 breast cancer survivors were used to identify factors affecting the
level and rate of change in quality of life after completion of treatment. Women were …

Background: Women with breast cancer are the largest group of female survivors of cancer.
There is limited information about the long-term quality of life (QOL) in disease-free breast …

PURPOSE Quality of life of breast cancer survivors 8 years after diagnosis was compared
with that among similarly aged women who had never confronted cancer (controls) …

Purpose Currently, 1,721,700 women are living with breast cancer in the United States. As
the number of survivors of breast cancer continues to rise, so must our knowledge about …

Although the psychosocial concomitants of early-stage breast cancer have been well-
documented, the relationship between cancer recurrence and quality of life remains less …

The authors developed a quality-of-life measure specific to long-term breast cancer
survivors. Participants were women diagnosed with early-stage disease≥ 7 years …

Attention to the quality of life (QOL) among long-term of breast cancer is long overdue.
Modest improvements in overall survival have led to a greater emphasis on how women are …

Previous studies on breast cancer recurrence provide a mixed picture of the quality of life of
women following a recurrence. To clarify the picture, the present study addresses some …

Background Data from a nationwide sample of US breast cancer survivors were used to
examine associations between patient characteristics (breast cancer clinical features …

The aim of this study was to review the literature on quality of life among long-term survivors
of breast cancer and identify the specific aspects of quality of life that were affected in these …