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Cancer Facts. Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer: Questions and Answers

Summary


TITLE

Cancer Facts. Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer: Questions and Answers

TOOL AVAILABILITY

This tool is available at:

http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/7_20.htm

DESCRIPTION

This fact sheet presents information on adjuvant therapy (treatment given in addition to the primary therapy) for the treatment of breast cancer.

TOOL CATEGORY

Education
Treatment

AUDIENCE

Patients/Consumers

Key Features

PATIENTS/CONSUMERS

Questions addressed include:

  • What types of primary therapy are used for breast cancer?
  • What types of adjuvant therapy are used for breast cancer?
  • What are prognostic factors and what do they have to do with adjuvant therapy?
  • Who is given adjuvant therapy?
  • When is adjuvant therapy started?
  • How is adjuvant therapy given, and how long does it last?
  • What are some of the side effects of adjuvant therapy, and what can be done to help manage them?
  • How are doctors and scientists trying to answer questions about adjuvant therapy for breast cancer?

Target Population

TARGET POPULATION AGE

Unspecified

ASSOCIATION WITH VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Women

Institute of Medicine - National Health Care Quality Report Categories

IOM CARE NEED

Getting Better
Living with Illness

IOM DOMAIN

Effectiveness
Patient-centeredness

IOM PRIORITY AREA

Self-management/health literacy (cross-cutting)

Identifying Information

SPONSOR

National Cancer Institute - Federal Government Agency [U.S.]

DEVELOPER

National Cancer Institute - Federal Government Agency [U.S.]

TOOL FORMAT

Fact sheet; Web site

RELATED RESOURCES

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RELEASE DATE

2002 May

QUALITYTOOLS STATUS

This QualityTools summary was completed by ECRI on October 14, 2004.