An investigative study of the effectiveness of the BioBehavioral Intervention on Stage II/III breast cancer patients. A total of 231 patients were split between an assessment-only control group and an experimental group receiving the Intervention and assessment. The goal of the Intervention is to use psychological, behavioral, and biologic methods with the primary goal of reducing cancer recurrence.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
231
Psychological (stress and quality of life), behavioral (health behaviors and compliance), and biologic (neuroendocrine and immune) factors, and pathways by which health outcomes (e.g. disease endpoints-recurrence, disease free interval) might be affected.
Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Recurrence event
Diagnosis of pathologically confirmed breast cancer recurrence
Time frame: Ten years
Recurrence time
Time from the day of initial stage II or III breast cancer diagnosis to day of pathology confirmed breast cancer recurrence
Time frame: Ten years
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