The project team

Project management: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Geyer

Project management and scientific collaboration: Dr. Dorothee Noeres

Research assistant: Lena Röbbel

and the Medical Sociology office

Phone: (0511) 532 9389, (0511) 532 6426

Summary of the project

This multicenter project investigates the success of the professional reintegration of breast cancer patients following primary therapy. It asks under which conditions and with which assistance working women resume work or choose a different path after breast cancer surgery. The selected aids include... [more...]

Project duration: July 01, 2016 - December 31, 2019

Funding: German Federal Pension Insurance

The following centers are involved in the study:

• Breast Center of the Hannover Medical School
• Diakovere Breast Center Henriettenstift Hanover
• Diakovere Breast Center Friederikenstift Hanover
• KRH-Klinikum Siloah, Hanover site
• KRH-Klinikum Robert-Koch, Gehrden site
• KRH Clinic, Großburgwedel site
• Breast Center of the Vinzenzkrankenhaus, Hanover
• Breast Center at St. Bernward Hospital, Hildesheim
• Gynecologists at Bahnhofsplatz, Hildesheim
• Sana Clinic Hameln-Pyrmont
• Ammerland Clinical Department in Westerstede

Status of data collection in November 2018

The recruitment of new study participants was completed in fall 2018. By October 2018, 453 patients had completed and returned the questionnaire, 108 patients ... [more...]

Materials

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Initial survey(main questionnaire)

Six-monthly catamnesis: Part 1(continuation of the main questionnaire)

Six-monthly catamnesis: Part 2(questionnaire on oncological rehabilitation)

Previous publications on the topic

In 2019, study results have already been presented at several seminars and congresses, for example

• at the 28th Rehabilitation Colloquium of the German Pension Insurance in Berlin

• at the 4th Interdisciplinary Congress "Quality of Cancer Care" in Berlin

• at the Rehabilitation Science Seminar at the University of Würzburg.

Further publications from the project can be viewed here .

Predecessor project

From 2002 to 2015, a predecessor project investigated coping with illness and social stress during the course of breast cancer. Around 250 breast cancer patients were interviewed several times over a period of ten years. The study was conducted as a cooperation between the Medical Sociology and Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy Departments of the MHH and the gynecological Clinical Departments of the Henriettenstiftung and Nordstadtkrankenhaus. Further information on the process, methodological approach and results can be found here.