Michelle Peate|Bettina Meiser|Benjamin C. Cheah|Christobel Saunders|Phyllis Butow|Belinda Thewes|Roger Hart|Kelly?Anne Phillips|Martha Hickey|Michael Friedlander
Making hard choices easier: a prospective, multicentre study to assess the efficacy of a fertility-related decision aid in young women with early-stage breast cancer
Neuroscience Research Australia|University of Western Australia|University of Sydney|University of Sydney|King Edward Memorial Hospital|University of Western Australia|Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre|Royal Women's Hospital|University of Melbourne|Prince of Wales Hospital
fertility priority many young women breast cancer women need informed interventions retain fertility chemotherapy make good quality decisions study aimed prospectively evaluate efficacy fertilityrelated decision aid da total 120 newly diagnosed earlystage breast cancer patients 19 australian oncology clinics aged 1840 years desired future fertility assessed decisional conflict knowledge decision regret satisfaction fertilityrelated treatment decisions measured baseline 1 12 months examined using linear mixed effects models compared usual care women received da reduced decisional conflict 151 95ci 254 048 p0004 improved knowledge 009 95ci 001016 p002 adjusting education desire children baseline uncertainty da associated reduced decisional regret 1 year 373 95ci 712 035 p0031 adjusting education women received da satisfied information received impact cancer treatment fertility p0001 fertility options p0005 rated helpful p0002 received standard care findings support widespread use da shortly diagnosis chemotherapy among younger breast cancer patients completed families