EVALUATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ANTI-CANCER TREATMENT AMONGST KOREAN METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PATIENTS- A MULTICENTER, CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Author(s)

Lee JY1, Ko SK1, Kim EJ21Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Korea Limited, Seoul, South Korea, 2Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

OBJECTIVES: This research is designed to reveal Quality of life of Korean patients with metastatic breast cancer for cancer treatments. METHODS: This is a multicenter, cross-sectional study in breast cancer patients receiving palliative chemotherapy. Total 199 patients with metastatic breast cancer were interviewed from 4 centers. Clinical, socio-demographic, and quality of life data were collected. Subjects completed a face-to-face interview with trained interviewer to assess their health status for breast cancer treatment. Patients recalled the before diagnosis status under current situation. we used the three methods to evaluate the health status; EORTC QLQ-C30, BR-23, EQ-5D. RESULTS: Overall utility weights for EORTC QLQ C30 and EQ-5D was 0.81 and 0.78 respectively(before diagnosis). It is higher than those of current (EORTC QLQ-C30: 0.54, EQ-5D: 0.60). the patients who are before diagnosis estimated higher functioning score compared to current. (physical functioning scale ; before cancer: 92.8, current 65.3) The higher the score is, the better patients’ function is. Symptom scale scores are the similar with functioning scale scores. The higher the score is, the worse the symptom is. before cancer status has lower symptom scale scores than current. (fatigue symptom scale; Before cancer: 25.2, current: 48.5)  BR 23 scale , there were deteriorations in patients for all domains compared to scores of before cancer patients. Especially, patient’ current body image score is significantly lower than that of before diagnosis patients. (before diagnosis: 91.4, current: 46.4) CONCLUSIONS: There are few study of Quality of life in breast cancer patients. It is meaningful that this study provided the utility weights for breast cancer patients in Korea.  

Conference/Value in Health Info

2010-05, ISPOR 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA

Value in Health, Vol. 13, No. 3 (May 2010)

Code

PCN107

Topic

Patient-Centered Research

Topic Subcategory

Health State Utilities, Patient-reported Outcomes & Quality of Life Outcomes

Disease

Oncology

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