2018
DOI: 10.1111/ecc.12919
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Symptom clusters and quality of life in breast cancer survivors after cancer treatment in a tertiary hospital in Korea

Abstract: We investigated the symptom clusters and effects of symptom clusters on the quality of life of Korean breast cancer survivors. We recruited 241 breast cancer survivors and collected cross‐sectional data on their symptoms. To determine inter‐relationships among symptoms, a principal component analysis with varimax rotation was performed based on the patient’s symptoms (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, pain, dyspnoea, insomnia, appetite loss, constipation, anxiety, depression, systemic therapy side effects, breast symp… Show more

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“…The included studies were published between 2005 and 2020. Of these 32 studies, 13 were cross‐sectional, 13–25 11 were longitudinal, 26–36 while the remaining eight involved a randomised clinical trial design 37–44 . Among these included studies, 16 involved the secondary analysis of the data of existing studies, 14,17,18,20,27,31,33–39,42–44 of which six were observational studies involving secondary analysis of data from randomised clinical trials 37–39,42–44 .…”
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“…The included studies were published between 2005 and 2020. Of these 32 studies, 13 were cross‐sectional, 13–25 11 were longitudinal, 26–36 while the remaining eight involved a randomised clinical trial design 37–44 . Among these included studies, 16 involved the secondary analysis of the data of existing studies, 14,17,18,20,27,31,33–39,42–44 of which six were observational studies involving secondary analysis of data from randomised clinical trials 37–39,42–44 .…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Eight studies examining the symptom clusters reported by patients who had completed breast cancer treatment reported the clustering of fatigue and sleep disturbance 17,18,24,30,37,40,41,44 . Only two of these studies reported that pain was associated with this symptom cluster 30,37 .…”
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“…Finally, while our focus was on the specific combination of pain, fatigue and depression among prostate cancer survivors, clusters of different combinations of symptoms among survivors of other cancers have been reported [see, e.g. [51][52][53][54]. Prostate cancer survivors are at risk of a wide range of symptoms as a result of their cancer and its treatment [6,55] and, while it was not our intention to explore which symptoms cooccur among prostate cancer survivors, research to investigate this would be valuable.…”
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“…BCS frequently report cognitive and psychosomatic symptoms including emotional distress (i.e., anxiety and depressive symptoms) (Maass et al, 2015), fatigue (Bower et al, 2006), perceived cognitive impairments (Runowicz et al, 2016), posttraumatic stress (Arnaboldi et al, 2017), and insomnia (Palesh et al, 2012(Palesh et al, , 2017. Although these symptoms are independently assessed, they often co-occur and are interrelated (Fagundes et al, 2015;Koutrouli et al, 2016;Nho et al, 2018). Importantly, cancer surveillance models call for the prevention, early intervention, and management of cancer-related side effects (Kenyon et al, 2014).…”
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