Abstract
Background Quality of life issues are increasingly being recognized as critical in the spectrum of cancer treatment that the prolongation of survival cannot be the only therapeutic objective. In some cases, patients and physicians may have to choose between the prospects of longer survival or better quality of life during the remaining time. Patients and methods: This is a cross sectional study carried out to measure health-related quality of life in 275 women with breast cancer attending Al-Basrah oncology center during six months period, data were collected through direct interview using the standard European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Core Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC-C30) and its complementary questionnaire specific for breast cancer (QLQ -BR -23). Results: The study showed that the mean score for global QoLwas52.39 ±17.1 indicating that the patients had average scale score. The most important predictors of global QoL were physical, role, cognitive and sexual functions in addition to future perspective and arm symptoms. Conclusion The most important determinants predicting global QOL were role, physical, cognitive and sexual functions in addition to future perspective and arm symptoms.
Highlights
Breast cancer in women is a great medical problem and it is the most common cancer among her family suffer a broad spectrum of emotions
Of life among survivors of breast cancer noted that the standard post-therapy follow-up monitoring of both demographic and clinical variables, like the these patients should address long-term complica- stage of breast cancer, duration of illness, educations of therapy, quality-of-life issues, and routine tional status, employment, and marital status, may medical care 6
The highest proportion of the study population were living in Basrah city center (40.4%), 35.3% in other districts in Basrah governorate and only 24.4% of the patients were from other governorates mainly from Thi-qar & Missan
Summary
Breast cancer in women is a great medical problem and it is the most common cancer among her family suffer a broad spectrum of emotions. During the years 2005- vidual’s insight of their position in life in the 2008 breast cancer was the most common cancer context of the culture and value systems in which in Basrah governorate; constitute 16.8% of all in- they live and about their objectives, anticipations, cident cancers and 30.2% of all cancer patients standards, and affairs. It is a wide-ranging conamong women 4. The present study was carried out to assess the impact of diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer on the quality of life of breast cancer patients attending Al-Basrah oncology centre and to identify the main predictors of functional and global quality of life scales
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