Breast cancer patients likely to skip follow-up therapy if not treating other chronic ills

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Patients who did not adhere to their medication schedule for chronic conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes, and thyroid disease, prior to a breast cancer diagnosis were twice as likely to skip oral adjuvant hormonal therapy. Patients who skipped medications for their chronic conditions had a 23 percent non-adherence rate to hormone treatment, compared with 10 percent for those who took one or more drugs for their conditions prior to a breast cancer diagnosis.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news