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Reducing Persistent Postoperative Pain and Disability 1 Year After Breast Cancer Surgery: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing Thoracic Paravertebral Block to Local Anesthetic Infiltration
Low Risk of Persistent Pain, Sensory Disturbances, and Complications Following Mastectomy After Gender-Affirming Surgery
High resolution OSL dating of the late quaternary loess from Central Shandong Mountains in eastern China and the paleoclimatic implications
Loss in working years after a breast cancer diagnosis
Background
Breast cancer can negatively influence working life, but it is unclear how many working years
women with breast cancer can expect to lose.
Methods
Women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1997 and 2012 were identified in the Breast
Cancer Data Base Sweden (N=19,661), together with breast cancer-free comparison women
(N=81,303). Using flexible parametric survival modelling, the loss in working years was
calculated as the difference in the remaining years in the work force between women with and
without breast cancer.
Results
Women aged 50 years at diagnosis with stage I disease lost on average 0.5 years (95% CI,
0.2–0.7) of their remaining working time; the corresponding estimates were 0.9 years (0.5–
1.2) in stage II, 2.5 years (1.9–3.1) in stage III, and 8.1 years (6.5–9.7) in stage IV. Women
with in-situ breast cancer did not lose any working years. The strongest treatment determinant
was axillary lymph node dissection.
Conclusion
We found a loss in working years not only in late, but also in early stage breast cancer.
Although it is reassuring that some groups had no or only a modest work loss, the economic
consequences for society are considerable given the large number of women annually
diagnosed with breast cancer