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ReviewHealth and quality of life outcomes2020

Health-related quality of life in breast cancer patients: review of reviews from 2008 to 2018.

Parisa Mokhtari-Hessari, Ali Montazeri

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Review in Health and quality of life outcomes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 227 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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227citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

227 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 427 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Efficacy and safety of a combination treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024
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  6. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing breast-conserving surgery and mastectomy in terms of patient survival rate and quality of life in breast cancer.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2024
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  14. The effects of early rehabilitation on physical and psychosocial functions after breast cancer surgery.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Parisa Mokhtari-HessariIntegrative Oncology Research Group, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
Ali MontazeriPopulation Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. montazeri@acecr.ac.ir.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5198-9539
Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research · IRUniversity of Science and Culture · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBreast cancer still is a topic. This overview of the literature aimed to update the current knowledge on quality of life in breast cancer patients.

methodsA review of literature in MEDLINE, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Google Scholar were carried out to identify review papers on health-related quality of life in breast cancer during the 2008 to 2018. All publications were screened using the PRISMA guideline. The methodological quality of reviews was assessed using the AMSTAR. The findings were summarized and tabulated accordingly.

resultsWithin over a decade, a total of 974 review papers were identified which according to the study selection criteria finally we have evaluated 82 reviews. Of these about 85% had a reasonable methodological quality. The findings were mainly summarized on several headings including instruments used to measure quality of life, treatment, supportive care, psychological distress, and symptoms. Questionnaires had a good performance to quantify quality of life in breast cancer patients. Most reviews were focused on the impact of treatment including endocrine therapy as well as integrating complementary and alternative medicine into the current practice. According to the reviews, yoga was the most recommended exercise to improve quality of life in breast cancer patients.

conclusionOverall, the findings from this overview indicated that quality of life in breast cancer patients enhanced during the last decade. Several simple but effective interventions such as physical activity and psychosocial interventions proved to be effective in improving quality of life in this population. However, management of symptoms such as pain, and lymphedema, issues related to worry, sexual function especially for young patients, and the future outlooks all are among topics that deserve further consideration. Also, this overview indicated that methodological issues in measuring quality of life in breast cancer patients improved greatly, but still there is a long way to go to understand what really matter to patients.

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Quality of LifeBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansSystematic Reviews as TopicBreast cancerOverviewPatient-reported outcomeQuality of lifeReview of reviews

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PMID33046106
PMCPMC7552560
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