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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2010 Feb;120(1):135–147. doi: 10.1007/s10549-009-0710-9

Table 2.

Chest and Shoulder Pain Severity

Time Point (Months)
0 1* 3–6 12+

Chest Pain

None 83 62 81 85
Mild 4 18 5 2
Moderate 1 7 2 1
Severe 0 1 0 0

Shoulder Pain

None 83 60 80 76
Mild 4 15 6 6
Moderate 1 8 2 5
Severe 0 5 0 1
*

p<.001, Chi Sq

Pain scale 0–10, as follows:

None = 0

Mild pain = 1, 2, 3

Moderate pain = 4, 5, 6

Severe pain = 7, 8, 9, 10