title: Patient-reported quality of life outcomes in Indian breast cancer patients: importance, review of the researches, determinants and future directions.
abstract: Breast cancer is a leading problem in developing world and India can be considered as one of the major contributors for incidence of breast cancer. In this article authors have reviewed quality of life studies on Indian breast cancer population. There are many factors which may hear common but cannot be neglected in case of Indian population. Policies and future directions to be implemented for breast cancer are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy Practice, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India. deshpande17@gmail.com
authors.forename: Prasanna R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Deshpande
authors.forename: Mohd Kazim
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Sheriff
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nazir
authors.forename: Sudeepthi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bommareddy
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tumkur
authors.forename: Anantha N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Naik
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D011788:Quality of Life; D057566:Self Report