Breast Reconstruction and Radiotherapy

The primary objective is to assess patient reported outcomes at 1 year (after mastectomy), by means of the validated questionnaire BREAST-Q. With the BREAST-Q questionnaire, four domains will be evaluated (psychosocial well-being (score ranges from 10 to 50), physical well-being (score ranges from 10 to 30), sexual well-being (score ranges from 6 to 30) and satisfaction with breasts (score ranges from 4 to 16) and higher scores indicate better outcomes.

The primary objective is to assess patient reported outcomes at 1 year (after mastectomy), by means of the validated questionnaire EQ-5D-5L.

The EQ-5D-5L questionnaire consists of two parts: the descriptive system, with a minimum value of 5 and maximum value of 25 (higher scores mean worse quality of life) and the visual analogue scale, with a minimum value of 0 and maximum value of 100 (higher scores mean better quality of life).

To assess patient reported outcomes at 3, and 5 years (after mastectomy), by means of the validated questionnaire BREAST-Q. With the BREAST-Q questionnaire, four domains will be evaluated (psychosocial well-being (score ranges from 10 to 50), physical well-being (score ranges from 10 to 30), sexual well-being (score ranges from 6 to 30) and satisfaction with breasts (score ranges from 4 to 16) and higher scores indicate better outcomes.

To assess patient reported outcomes at 3, and 5 years (after mastectomy), by means of the validated questionnaire EQ-5D-5L. The EQ-5D-5L questionnaire consists of two parts: the descriptive system, with a minimum value of 5 and maximum value of 25 (higher scores mean worse quality of life) and the visual analogue scale, with a minimum value of 0 and maximum value of 100 (higher scores mean better quality of life).

To assess complication rates prior to and after radiotherapy (e.g., total number of surgical reinterventions, reconstruction failure, capsular contracture, fibrosis, pain). Data on type of complications and complication rates (categorized as early (<90 days after surgery) or late (>90 days after surgery will be collected

The main outcomes of the economic evaluation will be the incremental cost-effectiveness per life-year gained and per quality-adjusted life-year gained. Primary care resource use (e.g., visits to the general practitioner, physiotherapist and home care) will be collected using the iMTA Medical Consumption Questionnaire (iMCQ), Productivity Cost Questionnaire (iPCQ) and Valuation of Informal Care Questionnaire (iVICQ) and administered at baseline (after surgery and before radiotherapy) and 3 months after surgery. Secondary care resource use (e.g., inpatient days, outpatient visits, RT and surgery procedures) will be obtained through DHD.

To assess time to adjuvant oncologic treatment (radiotherapy/systemic therapy)

Regarding breast cancer recurrence and time-to-event analysis, any (invasive or in situ) local, regional or distant recurrence will be registered as a recurrence event. The locoregional recurrence rate is defined as the time from diagnosis to a local and/or regional recurrence. The distant recurrence rate is defined as the time from diagnosis to a distant recurrence.

The recurrence-free interval is defined as the time from diagnosis to any event related to breast cancer, including death from breast cancer. Disease free survival is defined as the time from diagnosis to any event related to breast cancer or death (irrespective of cause of death). Overall survival is defined as the time from diagnosis to death from any cause. Patients will be censored if lost to follow-up before 5 years of follow-up or if they are alive at 5 years follow-up.