Psychosocial Treatment for Improving Chances of Survival in Women With Breast Cancer

Stanford University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Stage IIIB, IV, Recurrent, and Metastatic Breast Cancer

Treatments

Behavioral: Education

Behavioral: Supportive-Expressive Group Therapy plus education

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT00226928

DAHBR HB-C

R01MH047226 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will investigate the influence of psychosocial treatment on psychological outcomes and survival among women with metastatic or recurrent breast cancer.

Full description

The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of psychosocial treatment on psychological outcomes and survival among women with metastatic/recurrent breast cancer.

Enrollment

125 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Women were eligible for the study if they had documented metastatic or recurrent breast cancer, were proficient enough in English to be able to complete questionnaires and participate in a support group, were living in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, and had a Karnofsky score of at least 70%.19 Exclusion Criteria:

Women were excluded if they had any of the following risk factors: positive supraclavicular lymph nodes as the only metastatic lesion at the time of initial diagnosis; active non-breast cancers within the past 10 years; or other concurrent medical conditions likely to influence short-term survival. Basal cell or squamous cell carcinomas of the skin, in situ cancer of the cervix, or melanoma with a Breslow depth less than 0.76 mm were allowed.