Table 1.

The frequency of women who answered the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the LSQ on different occasions in ABCW and CBCW

Occasion	ABCW			CBCW			Matched pairs
	Participants	Deceased†	Dropouts	Participants	Deceased	Dropouts
Admission	60			60			60
After 4 weeks	53	1	6	58		2	52
After 3 months	51	3	6	55	3	2	48
After 6 months	48	6	6	53	5	2	44
After 1 year	41	11	8	47	9	4	36
After 5 years	21	34	5‡	23	29	8	13

ABCW, women with breast cancer in anthroposophic care; CBCW, women with breast cancer in conventional care.

^†Cumulative frequency.

^‡Three of the eight women who were dropouts during the first year died before the 5 year follow-up.