Long term improved quality of life by a 2-week group physical and educational intervention shortly after breast cancer chemotherapy completion. Results of the ‘Programme of Accompanying women after breast Cancer treatment completion in Thermal resorts’ (PACThe) randomised clinical trial of 251 patients

Efficacy of a global supportive skin care programme with hydrotherapy after non-metastatic breast cancer treatment: A randomised, controlled study

“…However, it should be noted that dermatological toxicities stand for the main immediate chemotherapy-induced adverse events, which are often unanticipated by patients (Gandhi et al, 2010;Hackbarth et al, 2008), and are mainly responsible for QoL impairment (Gandhi et al, 2010;Hackbarth et al, 2008;Ra et al, 2013;Sibaud et al, 2016). Besides, our results were confirmed by a large randomised clinical trial (PACThe study) in 251 patients, which investigated hydrotherapy as supportive treatment in women in breast cancer remission, shortly after chemotherapy completion (Kwiatkowski et al, 2013). This study showed significant positive effect on long-term QoL Follow-up studies would also be necessary to determine if hydrotherapy is a cost-effective approach in limiting dermatological sequelae and their negative impact on QoL.…”

Traditional and Rasch psychometric analyses of the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) questionnaire in shorter-term cancer survivors 15months post-diagnosis

“…There is a need for HRQoL measures suitable for shorter-term survivors [10], and a need for longitudinal HRQoL assessment in order to determine the natural history of survivorship, identify early predictors of late effects and difficulties and assess the sustained impact of HRQoL interventions (e.g. [17,[20][21][22]). It would be useful, therefore, if it were psychometrically viable to administer QLACS across the survivorship continuum.…”

Long-term improvement of breast cancer survivors’ quality of life by a 2-week group physical and educational intervention: 5-year update of the ‘PACThe’ trial

“…Because of its simple design (a 2-week multidisciplinary intervention in SPA) and the promising middle term results (Kwiatkowski et al , 2013), PACThe trial appeared to be an efficient strategy to help breast cancer survivors improve their QoL. The effect-size of the intervention on QoL was moderate at 6 months and small at 1 year.…”

“…The PACThe trial is a 2-week physical/nutritional intervention in hydrothermal centre (SPA Sana-Per-Aquam), whose main objective was an increase of health-related quality of life (QoL) 1 year post-intervention, with follow-up over 5 years. PACThe protocol and primary outcomes have been described in previous articles (Kwiatkowski et al , 2013; Mourgues et al , 2014). Long-term results are now available.…”