Relationship between fear of progression and symptom burden, disease factors and social/family factors in patients with stage‐IV breast cancer in Shandong, China

Abstract

Among patients with stage-IV breast cancer, satisfaction with family emotional support, ECOG score and symptom burden play key roles in FoP. Interventions, including providing appropriate emotional support from family, improving physical fitness and relieving symptom burden, must be considered in future studies, which may improve patients' overall physical and mental status and provide a supportive therapeutic environment.