Mark Petticrew, Ruth Bell, Duncan Hunter
Abstract Objective: To summarise the evidence on the effect of psychological coping styles (including fighting spirit, helplessness/hopelessness, denial, and avoidance) on survival and recurrence in patients with cancer. Design: Systematic review of published and unpublished prospective observationa...
Selina Rajan, Martin McKee, Sumathy Rangarajan, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala et al.
Importance: Depression is associated with incidence of and premature death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer in high-income countries, but it is not known whether this is true in low- and middle-income countries and in urban areas, where most people with depression now live. Objective: To...
Charlotte Vrinten, Jane Wardle, Laura A.V. Marlow
BACKGROUND: Cancer fear and fatalism are believed to be higher in ethnic minorities and may contribute to lower engagement with cancer prevention and early detection. We explored the levels of cancer fear and fatalism in six ethnic groups in the United Kingdom and examined the contribution of accult...
Claire Snyder, Katherine Clegg Smith, Elissa Bantug, Elliott Tolbert et al.
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) (eg, symptoms, functioning) can inform patient management. However, patients and clinicians often have difficulty interpreting score meaning. The authors tested approaches for presenting PRO data to improve interpretability. METHODS: This mixed-methods st...
Satyajeet Roy, Shirisha R Vallepu, Cristian Barrios, Krystal Hunter
BACKGROUND: Cancer survivors suffer from many comorbid conditions even after the cure of their cancers beyond 5 years. We explored the differences in the association of comorbid conditions between the cancer survivors and patients without cancer. METHODS: Electronic medical records of 280 adult canc...
Xiaoting Wu, Haibo Xu, Xiaomin Zhang, Shiyu Han et al.
BACKGROUND: Patients with gastric cancer experience severe psychological distress as a result of their cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy. Resilience is a defense mechanism that enables one to thrive amid distress. However, little research has been done to explore the formation and development mechan...
Maja Nikšić, Bernard Rachet, Fiona Warburton, Lindsay Forbes
BACKGROUND: Ethnic differences in cancer symptom awareness and barriers to seeking medical help in the English population are not fully understood. We aimed to quantify these differences, to help develop more effective health campaigns, tailored to the needs of different ethnic groups. METHODS: Usin...
Julie Bruce, Bruno Mazuquin, Alastair Canaway, Anower Hossain et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether a structured exercise programme improved functional and health related quality of life outcomes compared with usual care for women at high risk of upper limb disability after breast cancer surgery. DESIGN: Multicentre, pragmatic, superiority, randomised controlled tria...
Scott Berry, Roxanne Cosby, Timothy R. Asmis, Kelvin Chan et al.
Background An important goal of intermittent strategies of delivering systemic treatment as first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is to maintain efficacy while improving patients' quality of life (QoL). Given the varying impact on efficacy demonstrated in individual randomized,...
Mamun Ibn Bashar, Kawsar Ahmed, Muhammad Shahin Uddin, Farzana Ahmed et al.
The aims of the research are to examine the problems of abnormal menopausal women: the relationship between depression and menopausal-specific quality of life (MENQOL)-symptoms among postmenopausal women; the association of MENQOL-symptoms between pre-and postmenopausal female society in Bangladeshi...
Laura A.V. Marlow, Lesley McGregor, James Nazroo, Jane Wardle
OBJECTIVE: Earlier diagnosis of cancer has become a policy priority. There is evidence that minority ethnic groups are more likely to delay help-seeking for cancer symptoms, but few studies have explored reasons for delay in these groups. The present study explored facilitators and barriers to help-...
Marjorie Wells, Linda Sarna, Mary E. Cooley, Jean K. Brown et al.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by cancer patients, especially women, is increasing. However, CAM use among patients with lung cancer, who have been reported to have the highest symptom burden, is poorly documented. This study describes types and frequencies of specific CAM therapie...
Mohammad Morshad Alam, Tania Rahman, Zinia Afroz, Promit Ananyo Chakraborty et al.
BACKGROUND: Quality of Life (QoL), for long, has been a multifactorial concerning issue in oncology. The aim of this study was to determine QoL of cancer patients and its association with nutrition, and performance status. METHODOLOGY: This was a hospital based cross-sectional study carried out at 2...
Linda Sarna, Mary E. Cooley, Jean K. Brown, Cynthia Chernecky et al.
BACKGROUND: Data about health-related quality of life (QOL) after surgical treatment for lung cancer are limited. Such information can be valuable in developing appropriate nursing interventions for follow-up care for survivors. OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this study were to describe physical and em...
Sally L. Maliski, Linda Sarna, Lorraine S. Evangelista, Geraldine Padilla
Little is known about the experience of surviving lung cancer because of its low survival rate. However, 14% of the people with a diagnosis of lung cancer become long-term survivors. This study describes the experience of surviving lung cancer as told by a subsample of survivors from a larger quanti...