Menstrual Cycle Maintenance and Quality of Life After Breast Cancer Treatment: A Prospective Study.

摘要

Very little is known about the incidence, onset, time course, and symptomatology of premature menopause induced by breast cancer therapy. No prospective study has been reported. Accrual in the present study was begun on January 1, 1998, but has not reached target numbers. Additional funding has been obtained to continue to follow this cohort of young women and to recruit an additional 200 participants. (DOD Behavorial Center of Excellence in Breast Cancer: Quality of Life and Eunctional Status across the Life Course, BC004060, DAND l7-Ol-1-O447.) Preliminary analyses of the 611 current participants have been done.