Diversity in changes of HRQoL over a 1-year period after radiotherapy in Norwegian breast cancer patients: results of cluster analyses.
Magdalena Anna LazarewiczDorota WłodarczykSteinar LundgrenRandi Johansen ReidunsdatterPublished in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2019)
Our results demonstrated a noticeable heterogeneity of changes in HRQoL domains after BC treatment. The findings support the importance of an accurate patient-reported HRQoL assessment as a routine element of BC survivors' care. The pre-RT assessment of HRQoL alone allows to predict the course of HRQoL changes over the 1-year period after RT and the risk of "falling into" low functioning clusters.