Breast Cancer (update of QLQ-BR23)

Gender Neutral
Type Module
Testing Phase IV - in development
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Principal investigator(s)
Vesna Bjelic-Radisic
Medical University Graz, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Graz, Austria
Study coordinator(s)
Sina Schafer
Helios University Clinic Wuppertal University Witten/Herdecke
Wuppertal, Germany
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Project summary

The standard therapy of breast cancer has been changed, new therapies brought new side effects and different impacts on quality of life are not sufficiently covered by  EORTC QLQ BR-23 which was developed in 1996. In Phase 1-3 the BR-23 Module was updated, 22 items were added, resulting in a new 45 item Module (EORTC QLQ BR-45). The aim of phase 4 is to test the psychometric properties and the validity of the EORTC QLQ-BR45 in conjunction with the EORTC QLQ- C30 in female patients diagnosed with breast cancer at different stages of the disease and with different therapy options.

 

Achievements

Phase 1 – 3 completed

EORTC-QLQ BR-45 translated in 25 languages (3 translations in progress)

Ethics

Patient recruitment started

Manuscript (status)

 

Future plans

Phase 4: patient recruitment in different countries

For patients

The BR-23 is a questionnaire for measuring the quality of life in patients with breast cancer, which was developed in 1996. In the last years many changes regarding treatment and diagnostics have occurred. For this reason the QLQ BR-23 was updated and 22 new questions were added. Now this new BR- 45 questionnaire will be tested in patients with breast cancer in different countries.