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U. Yun Ryo, MD, PhD
University of Kentucky Lexington

JAMA. 1994;272(21):1658.

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To the Editor.

—The studies published recently by the GIVIO Investigators¹ and by Rosselli Del Turco et al² are timely and well intended. However, the conclusions drawn by the investigators might be misleading.

The conclusion reached by the GIVIO group is that the health-related quality of life of breast cancer patients was the same whether follow-up examinations were performed with or without imaging procedures and laboratory tests. This conclusion was based on responses to questionnaires; 68% (901 of 1320) at 1 year, and 60% (639 of 1066 survivors) at the fifth year. Forty percent of the subjects did not respond to the questionnaires or were not included in the fifth-year survey. What if those nonresponders in the fifth year have a completely different sense of well-being?

Patients with breast cancer in the early stages, similar to the subjects in the two studies, may show a disease-free survival of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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