イワモト タカユキ   Takayuki Iwamoto
  岩本 高行
   所属   川崎医科大学  医学部 臨床医学 乳腺甲状腺外科学
   職種   講師
論文種別 原著
言語種別 英語
査読の有無 査読あり
表題 Women prefer adjuvant endocrine therapy to chemotherapy for breast cancer treatment.
掲載誌名 正式名:Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan)
略  称:Breast Cancer
ISSNコード:18804233/13406868
掲載区分国外
巻・号・頁 20(1),pp.67-74
著者・共著者 Naoki Niikura, Morihiko Kimura, Takayuki Iwamoto, Naoki Hayashi, Junichi Shintoku, Yuki Saito, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Yutaka Tokuda
発行年月 2013/01
概要 BACKGROUND:We attempted to determine the preferences of women regarding the benefits they considered necessary to make adjuvant therapy worthwhile, and to compare preferences for adjuvant endocrine therapy, chemotherapy, and trastuzumab therapy. We also investigated the effect of information about cost on women's treatment preferences.PATIENTS AND METHODS:Consecutive women who had a medical examination at the Breast Clinic, Ota General Hospital, were included in our study. We collected a questionnaire from a total of 365 women; 297 completed responses were included in the study.RESULTS:Among 297 women, 105 had breast cancer that had been treated and 192 did not have breast cancer; 38% of women judged that a 5% or less gain in the probability of survival was sufficient to make endocrine therapy worthwhile; 28% of participants judged that chemotherapy was worthwhile; 24% of participants judged that trastuzumab therapy was worthwhile. Women indicated that they were more likely to receive adjuvant endocrine therapy than chemotherapy or trastuzumab therapy, for the same gains in the probability of survival. Cost information about treatments did not affect women's treatment preferences. Younger women tended to judge improvements in survival sufficient to make adjuvant endocrine and chemotherapy worthwhile, as compared to older women. The comparisons were statistically significant in the 10 and 20% categories for endocrine therapy and chemotherapy.CONCLUSION:Women prefer endocrine therapy to chemotherapy or trastuzumab therapy, given the same projected treatment benefits. Younger women prefer both chemotherapy and endocrine therapy as compared with older woman.
DOI 10.1007/s12282-011-0310-5
PMID 22109640