Patient-reported quality of life, unmet needs and care coordination outcomes: Moving toward targeted breast cancer survivorship care planning.

CONCLUSION: Younger women reported poorer quality of life and more unmet needs. SCPs should specifically target younger women and must include strategies to address fear of cancer recurrence if they are to lead to a measureable difference in outcomes. PMID: 25244662 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Breast Cancer - September 22, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Brennan ME, Butow P, Spillane AJ, Boyle F Tags: Asia Pac J Clin Oncol Source Type: research