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Quality of life after breast cancer surgery
Author(s) -
De Haes J. C. J. M.,
Welvaart K.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930280211
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , quality of life (healthcare) , general surgery , cancer surgery , cancer , oncology , surgery , nursing
All patients (N=41) who participated in a randomized clinical trial in the Leiden University Hospital comparing mastectomy to tumorectomy have been studied with respect to their quality of life 11 months (± 5) after surgery. The body image of patients is more severely impaired after mastectomy than after tumorectomy (P < .01). The studied groups did not differ, as has been suggested, with respect to fear of recurrence and death. These fears, however, turned out to be inversely related to the age of the patients (r = ‐.34, P = .02).