Impacts of different therapies on medical and physical health of breast cancer patients / 现代临床护理

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the impacts of different therapies on medical and physical health of breast cancer patients and put forward the measures for health education. Methods The MOS 36 items short form health survey (SF-36) and a self-designed questionnaire on general data were designed to investigate 93 breast cancer patients with different therapies. All of them had undergone surgery and were divided into two groups as in the following 21 receiving only surgery were set as only surgery group, 51 receiving surgery plus chemotherapy as another group, 11 of them receiving surgery plus radiotherapy as another group and 10 receiving surgery plus chemotherapy and radiotherapy as the last group. Results There were significant differences between all the groups in terms of the score on physical health ( P<0 . 05 ) and so it was with the only surgery group and the surgery plus chemotherapy group (P<0.05); the surgery plus chemotherapy group and the surgery plus chemotherapy and radiotherapy group (P<0.05). There were significant differences among all the groups in terms of the score of mental health (P<0.05) and so it was with the comparison among the surgery group and surgery plus chemotherapy and radiotherapy group (P<0.05). Conclusions The patients who have surgery plus chemotherapy and radiotherapy are in poor condition physically and mentally. Health education should focus on improving the general and physical health. So we should understand the effect of different therapies on patients physically and mentally. In this way, we can individualize the health education and help the patients with breast cancer to live in a better mental and physical condition.