Breast Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
Sociodemographic, Ethnicity, Work-related, Health system, QOL, Questionnaires, 10-071
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to learn more about how being treated for breast cancer affects patients' employment, financial situation, and quality of life on a short-term basis and on a long term basis. Most studies of employment after breast cancer have focused on Caucasian women.This study will evaluate the impact of breast cancer on the lives of women from different ethnic groups.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALsurvey web-based or telephone interview
Patients will be asked to complete a questionnaire at baseline, and then one at follow up, 3-4 months after treatment completion. The patient will be contacted one and two years after the completion of their follow up questionnaire for a brief one-question survey regarding current employment status. A member of the study team will call a subset of patients who have completed both baseline and follow-up surveys to clarify responses to previous questions. Patients will be considered lost to follow- up if surveys A or C have not been completed two years from the participant's consent date (participants who enroll but do not complete survey A are not prompted for survey C). Deviations will not be filed until the end of the study, as there are opportunities over the course of study follow- up to collect previously missing information.
Sponsors
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
The City College of New York
NYC Health & Hospitals/ Lincoln Medical Center
New York Presbyterian Queens
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Queens Medical Associates
Study design
Observational model
CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Breast cancer survivors * Pathologic diagnosis of stage I-III breast cancer * Paid employment (full time or part time) at time of consent or in the three months prior to diagnosis * Age 18 to 64 years (inclusive) * The ability to give informed consent in Chinese (Mandarin), English, Korean, or Spanish.at MSK, New York Presbyterian Queens and Queens Medical Associates At NYC Health \& Hospitals/ Lincoln Medical Center, patients must be able to give consent in English or Spanish. * At the time of enrollment, participants must still be undergoing chemotherapy, undergoing radiation therapy, or planning surgery unless surgery is to be the only treatment modality. Those for whom treatment consists of surgery alone may have had their operation no more than 2 months prior to study enrollment. Participants need not have undergone surgical reconstruction prior to enrollment if the plan is to delay this procedure until after primary treatment is completed. Comparison group Paid employment (full time or part time) at the time of consent * Age 18 to 64 years (inclusive) and within an age range that is 5 years above or below that of the nominating or matched survivor * The ability to give informed consent in the same language as the nominating survivor * Membership in the same ethnic group as the nominating survivor * Not treated for cancer in the past year (other than non-melanoma skin cancer)
Exclusion criteria
* N/A
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To compare the impact of breast cancer on (a) employment status, (b) financial situation, and (c) QoL. | 3 years |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To identify barriers to employment and correlates of employment status, financial situation, and QoL. | 3 years |
| To develop the methodology to evaluate discrimination in the labor market using a validated instrument and to determine whether or not labor market discrimination is exacerbated by a diagnosis of breast cancer. | 3 years |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORVictoria Blinder, M.D., M.Sc.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Outcome results
None listed