RT  - European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology
ID  - 10.12892/ejgo201103280
T1  - Compliance to adjuvant therapy in breast cancer patients
A1  - C. Dittmer
A1  - K. Roeder
A1  - F. Hoellen
A1  - D. Salehin
A1  - M. Thill
A1  - D. Fischer
K1  - Compliance; Breast cancer; Adjuvant therapy; Endocrine therapy
YR  - 2011
SP  - 280
AB  - <p>During recent years a continuous reduction of mortality from breast cancer has taken place in the Western countries. We wanted to verify whether the actual therapy for our own cases deviates from our recommendations, although the surgeon, radiotherapist and gynaecological oncologist are on the same premises. We sent out questionnaires to all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients in the last seven years regarding their adjuvant therapy. Comparing these answers to our own recommendation showed a very good compliance regarding chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Adjuvant endocrine therapy showed a very poor compliance with an adherence of 77%. Overall we can conclude that endocrine therapy causes many side-effects that seem to burden the patients. In combination with the duration of the therapy this causes a severe reduction in compliance and length of the therapy.</p>