Relationship of race to functional status among breast cancer patients after curative surgery
✍ Scribed by Dr. Joseph G. Feldman; Bernard Gardner; Anne C. Carter; Antonia Alfonso; Heriberto Orces
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 366 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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✦ Synopsis
Analysis of functional status of 197 breast cancer patients three years after curative radical mastectomy indicated a cumulative probability of disability of 25%. whereas the probability of death regardless of prior disability was 40.5%.
Analysis of functional status by patient characteristics indicated that nonwhites were three times more likely than whites to experience disability (P <0.01) as defined in terms of their ability to carry on normal activities without assistance.
average, eight years younger than whites. The younger age may reflect a larger proportion of premenopausal breast cancer cases among nonwhites, which if associated with more rapidly progressing disease could account for their poorer prognosis. Alternatively, there may exist factors in the nonwhites' social or economic environment that limited the ability of the family t o care for the patient at home. These data reaffum the need to monitor closely breast cancer patients to diagnose acute complications, and they indicate that most patients can resume normal activities shortly after curative surgery.
Although whites and nonwhites were diagnosed at similar stages of disease, nonwhites were, on ............