• 1. School of Health Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100710, P.R.China;
  • 2. Department of Oncology Surgery, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Fuzhou 350001, P.R.China;
  • 3. School of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100710, P.R.China;
SUN Jing, Email: sunjing@pumc.edu.cn; LIN Mengbo, Email: fzsllmb@123.com; LIU Yuanli, Email: yliu@pumc.edu.cn
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Objective To investigate the quality of life (QOL) and its influencing factors of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast cancer returning to social life after treatment.Methods Functional assessment of cancer therapy-breast scale (FACT-B Scale) was adopted to investigate the QOL of the HER2 positive breast cancer survivors, who were admitted and treated during January 2015 and October 2019 in Fujian Provincial Hospital. The demographic, social and economic data, as well as the clinical information of the responded survivors were collected. Logistic regression model was adopted to analyze factors associated with the QOL of the responded survivors.Results A total of 117 responded survivors were included. The median of the FACT-B scale was 106.0 (91.0, 121.3) points out of 148 points (71.6%). With the control of the demographic, social and economic status of the responded survivors, as well as the time from diagnosis and treatment to responding to the follow-up, we found that "having other chronic conditions" was the risk factor for the HER2 positive breast cancer survivors to have higher QOL in the social life after treatment (OR=4.17, 95%CI 1.33 to 15.37, P=0.01).Conclusions The overall QOL of the HER2 positive breast cancer survivors in the social life after treatment was low. "Having other chronic conditions" was the risk factor for the HER2 positive breast cancer survivors to have higher QOL in the social life after treatment.

Citation: ZHANG Peiwen, ZHANG Hui, LI Mingshuang, CHENG Hanchao, ZHANG Yuou, SUN Jing, LIN Mengbo, LIU Yuanli. Factors associated with quality of life in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 positive breast cancer survivors. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2021, 21(5): 532-538. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202011085 Copy

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