Patient factors associated with discrepancies between patient-reported and clinician-documented peripheral neuropathy in women with breast cancer receiving paclitaxel: A pilot study.

Purpose: Discrepancies between clinicians' assessment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) and patient-reported outcomes (PRO) have been described, though the underlying reasons are unknown. Our objective was to identify potential patient-specific factors associated with under-describing of CIPN to clinicians in women with non-metastatic breast cancer treated with paclitaxel.

Methods: Patients enrolled in an observational study (n = 60) completed weekly CIPN PRO using the EORTC CIPN20.

Reporting of paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy symptoms to clinicians among women with breast cancer: a qualitative study.

Purpose: Cases of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) under-reporting have been sporadically described in the literature, but no studies have focused on actively examining this behavior. Our primary aim was to identify women who purposefully under-reported CIPN, along with reasons for doing so. A secondary aim was to explore factors enabling or hindering communication of CIPN to clinicians.