Clinical Classification of Pain in Breast Cancer Survivors

Kutahya Health Sciences University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Cancer Pain; Chronic Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04219072

KutahyaMSUcancer

Details and patient eligibility

About

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide according to International Agency for Research on Cancer. Unfortunately, cancer survivors often face long-term symptoms that occur or persist after completion of treatment. In addition to fatigue, pain is the most common persistent symptom after cancer and cancer treatment. The diagnosis and treatment of pain in cancer survivors is not clear for many physicians. A mechanism-based classification of pain in cancer survivors might be a critical step for clinical reasoning, especially for discrimination of different pain types. The primary aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of the predominant type of pain in Turkish breast cancer survivors using a recent published clinical algorithm.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosed with histologically confirmed invasive or non-invasive primary breast cancer
• completed remission and their primary treatment at least 3 months prior to study participation
• experienced pain or a sensitive disorder (like numbness, tingling, etc.) anywhere in body for which they stated a minimum score of 3 on a numeric pain rating scale

Exclusion criteria

• patients affected by other chronic disease,
• severe psychological disorders
• active metastases