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Joint symptoms and health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women with breast cancer who completed 5 years of anastrozole.

AbstractPURPOSE:
To assess the joint symptoms and the impact on patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL) due to 5 years of anastrozole from the baseline data in the N-SAS BC 05 trial, a randomized clinical trial was designed to assess the efficacy of 5 additional years of anastrozole among women with breast cancer.
METHODS:
Joint symptoms and HRQOL were evaluated using an original questionnaire for joint symptoms, the Short Form 36-item Health Survey (SF-36), the EuroQol EQ-5D-3L, and a subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Endocrine Symptoms (FACT-ES).
RESULTS:
Baseline joint symptom and HRQOL data were collected from 330 patients between November 2007 and March 2010. Joint pain and joint stiffness were reported by 61.6 and 59.1 % of patients, respectively, although these symptoms did not affect the activities of daily living in 96.0 and 97.9 % of patients, respectively. Joint pain was reported in the knee by 61.0 % of patients and in the hand by 36.0 % of patients. Joint stiffness mainly affected the hand (67.9 %), especially the proximal interphalangeal joint, and typically occurred upon waking up or in the morning. Most SF-36 domains had good average scores, although slight decreases in physical functioning and role-physical were observed (compared to the national standard scores). The mean EQ-5D utility score was 0.86, and the total FACT-ES subscale score was 62.2/76.
CONCLUSIONS:
After 5 years of anastrozole, many of the patients reported joint pain and stiffness in mainly the hand and knee with mild symptoms and good HRQOL.
AuthorsHiroshi Yagata, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Yoshifumi Komoike, Shigehira Saji, Hiroyuki Takei, Toshitaka Nakamura, Yasuo Ohashi, Takuya Iwase, Kojiro Shimozuma
JournalSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (Support Care Cancer) Vol. 24 Issue 2 Pg. 683-689 (Feb 2016) ISSN: 1433-7339 [Electronic] Germany
PMID26153513 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Multicenter Study, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
  • Nitriles
  • Triazoles
  • Anastrozole
Topics
  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Anastrozole
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal (administration & dosage, adverse effects)
  • Breast Neoplasms (drug therapy)
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Joint Diseases (chemically induced)
  • Middle Aged
  • Nitriles (administration & dosage, adverse effects)
  • Postmenopause
  • Quality of Life
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Triazoles (administration & dosage, adverse effects)

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