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Overview
- Background of food insecurity in Maine
- NECS partnership with Good Shepherd Food Bank
- Introduction to food insecurity research at NECS
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusions & Take-Aways
Providing Food Assistance to Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients with - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Providing Food Assistance to Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients with - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Providing Food Assistance to Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients with Food Insecurity Significantly Improves Their Adherence to Adjuvant Therapy. Sabrina Caramando, Emmaline Longnecker, Tracy F. Weisberg, Christian A. Thomas. Overview
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Background
Food Insecurity in Maine
- 16% of Maine residents are food insecure
- 7th highest in the Nation
- Positive associations with poor health
- “Food Insecurity Among Cancer Patients in Kentucky: A Pilot Study”
* affordable medication, quality of life, SES, nutritional risk, depression
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- Good Shepherd Food Bank partnership
- Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) survey
- Food insecurity question
- Food bags given out by financial advisors
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Past Research at NECS
- FI and cancer
patient symptom burden
- Significant
differences in PRO symptoms
- Difficulty sleeping,
fatigue, pain, mood, & appetite
0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 Difficulty Sleeping Fatigue Pain Mood Appetite
PRO Symptom Averages
Food Insecurity Food Security
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- Aim
- Correlation between FI and adherence to adjuvant therapy
- Does providing food assistance change adherence patterns to
adjuvant therapy?
- food bags
Current Study
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- Compiled data from January 2017 through June 2018
- early stage (0-II) breast cancer patients
- adjuvant therapy (hormone)
- indication of FI on PRO survey
- Number of months on adjuvant therapy
- Case controls → disease, stage, age, gender, timeframe of adjuvant therapy
Methods
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Results
n= 59 n= 59 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Months of Adjvant Treatment FI
Months of Adjuvant Treatment for Early Stage Breast Cancer FI and FS Patients
FS
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Results (continued)
n= 38 n= 21 n= 59 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Months of Adjuvant Treatment FI, no assistance
Months of Adjuvant Treatment for FI and FS Patients
FI, received assistance FS
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- Food insecurity impacts adjuvant therapy of early stage breast
cancer patients
- SES factors
- PRO symptom burden
- Providing food assistance improves adherence to adjuvant
therapy and may therefore influence a patients ability to successfully complete treatment
Conclusions & Take-Aways
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