Table 5.

A list of age-related reviews on quality of life in breast cancer patients (2008–2018)

Authors [References]	Year	Main focus	Description/analysis	No. of databases	No. of included studies	Performed QA	Risk of bias assessment	Result(s)
Ballinger and Fallowfield [80]	2009	Assessment of QOL in older patients	Review	NA	25	No	No	The long-term survivorship studies indicate that older patients are perhaps better equipped mentally to deal with treatments
Munoz [81]	2010	Quality of life during treatment in young patients	Review	NA	NA	No	No	Patients who undergone mastectomy have worse body image and disturbances in their sexual life. Patients treated with mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy are those with the greatest impairment. Also, sexual activity is negatively affected by chemotherapy
Rosenberg and Partridge [82]	2013	QOL related to physical and psychosocial functioning in young premature menopause patients	Review	NA	NA	No	No	Effective strategies as an intervention should be applied to relieve symptoms and improve QOL in younger age groups
Samuel et al. [83]	2016	HRQOL in young black survivors	Systematic review	5	6	Yes	No	Young black BCS generally experience suboptimal HRQOL after breast cancer diagnosis

QA quality appraisal, NA not available, HRQO health-related quality of life, QOL quality of life, BCS breast cancer survivors