Clinical trial NCT03106350: Symptoms Experienced and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Receiving Radiotherapy
Official title: Symptoms Experienced and Quality of Life in Patients With Breast Cancer Receiving Radiotherapy Across One Year
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Quality of Life
Lead sponsor: Chulabhorn Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-04-10
Enrollment: 103
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients with breast cancer

Brief summary: EORTC-QLQ-30 questionnaire filled in by participants 6 times

Detailed description: EORTC-QLQ-30 questionnaire filled in by participants 6 times

* 1st before receive radiotherapy
* 2nd after receive radiotherapy
* 3th 1 month after receive radiotherapy
* 4th 3 month after receive radiotherapy
* 5th 6 month after receive radiotherapy
* 6th 1 year after receive radiotherapy

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* good consciousness
* ability to understand and provide information
* no hearing impairment
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance level of 0 to 2

Exclusion Criteria:

* prior radiotherapy

Primary outcomes:
measure: symptoms experienced
timeFrame: Change from Baseline symptoms experienced at 1 month,3 month,6 month,1 year after radiotherapy
Secondary outcomes:
measure: quality of life
timeFrame: Change from Baseline quality of life at 1 month,3 month,6 month,1 year after radiotherapy
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Chulabhorn Hospital
name: Saengrawee Thanthong, M.N.S
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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