Risk factors related to chronic pain after breast cancer surgery: a prospective cohort study
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Abstract
Aim: Chronic pain after breast cancer surgery (CPBCS) is a significant clinical problem affecting 13% to 93% of patients. Furthermore, 5% to 10% of CPBCS patients are estimated to suffer from severe and disabling CPBCS. Thus, the aim of this prospective cohort study was to identify pre-, intra- and post-operative factors related to CPBCS risk and intensity at three months follow up. Methods: Ninety-five female patients scheduled to undergo breast cancer surgery were recruited from the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec. Baseline data was collected on age, pre-operative pain, anxiety, and depression. Telephone follow-up interviews were conducted at seven days and three months after surgery to assess the acute pain and CPBCS, respectively, using the brief pain inventory scale. Intra-operative data on type of surgery, axillary status, radiotherapy and chemotherapy was assessed from physicians' charts. Multivariable logistic regression and linear regression analyses were used to assess factors for CPBCS risk and CPBCS intensity, respectively, at three months follow-up. Results: Eighty-two patients completed the three months follow-up. From those, 45 (55%) reported CPBCS, and 24 patients (53.33%) reported moderate pain (NRS 3â7). In the multivariable analyses only pre-operative pain (odds ratio (OR) = 4.41, p = 0.03) increased the CPBCS risk at three months after surgery. CPBCS intensity at three months after surgery was positively related to depression (β = 1.55; p = 0.0005), and chemotherapy (β = 1.34; p = 0.006). Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that pre-operative pain increases the risk of CPBCS. Depression and chemotherapy were associated with CPBCS intensity. These factors should therefore be considered important to be evaluated and managed for the breast cancer surgery patient, in order to reduce the burden of CPBCS.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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