Health Management of Breast Cancer Survivors

作     者：Min Li Juan Chen Zhendong Chen 

作者机构：Department of Oncology the First AffiliatedHospital of Anhui Medical University Hefei20022 Anhui Province China 

出 版 物：《Clinical oncology and cancer resexreh》 (临床肿瘤与癌症研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第6卷第3期

页      面：174-178页

核心收录：

学科分类：090603[农学-临床兽医学] 083002[工学-环境工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 07[理学] 08[工学] 09[农学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 0713[理学-生态学] 

主　　题：健康管理 幸存者 乳腺癌 慢性疾病 卫生管理 肿瘤组织 经济利益 临床试验 

摘      要：Breast cancer is defined as a chronic *** amounts of attention have been paid to the healthmanagement of breast cancer survivors. An important issue ishow to find the most appropriate method of follow-up in orderto detect long-term complications of treatment, local recurrenceand distant metastasis and to administer appropriate treatmentto the survivors with recurrence in a timely fashion. Differentoncology organizations have published guidelines for followingup breast cancer survivors. However, there are few articles onthis issue in China. Using the published follow-up guidelines,we analyzed their main limitations and discussed the content,follow-up interval and economic benefits of following up breastcancer survivors in an effort to provide suggestions to *** on a large number of clinical trials, we discussed the roleof physical examination, mammography, liver echograph, chestradiography, bone scan and so on. We evaluated the effects ofthe above factors on detection of distant disease, survival time,improvement in quality of life and time to diagnosis of *** results of follow-up carried out by oncologists and primaryhealth care physicians were compared. We also analyzed thecorrelation factors for the cost of such follow-up. It appears thatfollow-up for breast cancer survivors can be carried out effectivelyby trained primary health care physicians. If anything unusualarises, the patients should be transferred to specialists.