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Showing 1 to 20 of 223 for “"Breast -- Cancer -- Patients"”.
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Psychoeducational Program for Breast Cancer Patients: A Pilot Study
Cancer treatments adversely affect cognition in general and memory in particular. The current study focused on developing and investigating the feasibility and effectiveness of a group program for breast cancer survivors suffering from cognitive problems post cancer treatment. This intervention was …
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Breast Cancer Patients' Perspectives on the Helpfulness of Supportive Offerings
<p>Research suggests that breast cancer patients seek and benefit from social support that they view as helpful. Previous qualitative studies have explored overtly negative behaviors by family and friends in some depth. Several quantitative studies have explored how support that is viewed as …
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Effect of Physical Activity on Community Participation among Breast Cancer Patients
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer patients who engage in physical activity are shown to have a reduction in difficulties during daily living as a result of treatment side effects; however, it is unknown if participation in physical activity will reduce the limitations experienced by these individuals while …
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Survival of breast cancer patients and the potential for better prognostication
Many factors influence the survival of patients with breast cancer. Tumour biology is likely the most important; secondly, the treatment options and the response to the treatment. Individuals with the same stage and similar pathological diagnoses can experience different clinical courses. Patient …
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Screening Adherence and Emotional Adjustment of Daughters of Breast Cancer Patients
<p>Women at high risk for breast cancer oftentimes also experience psychological vulnerably related to experiences of cancer in their family, high bereavement rates and their own uncertainties regarding if and when they may develop the disease. This research sought to evaluate psychological …
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Analysis of radiosensitivity in South African cervical and breast cancer patients
… in radiobiology to study DNA DSB and repair. Breast cancer is the leading cancer amongst South African women, with a lifetime risk of 1 in 34. Since most cancer patients in South Africa present with late-stage disease, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are commonly-used treatments. Several …
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Aspirin Use Is Associated with Improved Outcomes in Inflammatory Breast Cancer Patients
PURPOSE: Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer and has a high propensity for distant metastases. Our previous data suggested that aspirin (ASA) use may be associated with reduced risk of distant metastases in aggressive BC; however, there are no reported …
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Comparison of parametric models using right censored data for breast cancer patients
… Weibull model, and log-logistic model. Data of breast cancer patients from general hospital in Johor Bahru were used to illustrate the right censoring data. When analyzing the breast cancer data, all three distributions were shown the consistency of data with the line graph of cumulative hazard …
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Chemo brain and prospective memory in breast cancer patients: A mixed methods study
Some breast cancer patients report memory deficits after undergoing cancer treatment. This deficit has been given the term chemo brain. Patients who report such deficits usually complain about attention and concentration problems, such as forgetting to take their medication, or taking it twice, …
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Detection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms In Csmd1 Gene of Colon and Breast Cancer Patients
… tumor or matched normal tissues of 80 unrelated patients (30 colon cancer, 50 breast cancers). More than 92% of the 165 SNPs detected were present in the normal tissues. One non synonymous SNP found at an amino acid position 2772 in exon 55 of CSMD1 gene of a stage III, node positive colon cancer …
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Exploring the physiotherapeutic needs of breast cancer patients: A qualitative study of patient experience
Background: It has been reported that patients should have access to physiotherapy at all stages throughout their treatment pathway following a diagnosis of breast cancer. As the number of breast cancer survivors increases the need for research into the impact of breast cancer and its treatment has …
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Data Mining for Signal Detection of Targeted Therapy Related Drug Toxicity in Breast Cancer Patients
… scan statistic (TBSS). Using data from the Texas Cancer Registry and Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results linked to Medicare from 2010-2014 we identified 8,949 patients with breast cancer treated with chemotherapy and 2,542 patients treated with trastuzumab in addition to chemotherapy. …
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Data Mining for Signal Detection of Targeted Therapy Related Drug Toxicity in Breast Cancer Patients
… scan statistic (TBSS). Using data from the Texas Cancer Registry and Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results linked to Medicare from 2010-2014 we identified 8,949 patients with breast cancer treated with chemotherapy and 2,542 patients treated with trastuzumab in addition to chemotherapy. …
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Breast cancer patients' experience with receiving pathogenic germline genetic results: single center experience in Oman
Introduction: In Oman, little is known about breast cancer patients' experiences of receiving pathogenic germline genetic results. Receiving a positive germline genetic result can have a wide range of emotional and practical effects on breast cancer patients. This study explored the lived …
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SELF-REPRESENTATIONS IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS AND SURVIVORS: BODY IMAGE, INJURED SELF, AND AVAILABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
… nature of self-representations in breast cancer patients and survivors. My Ph.D. thesis focuses on the impact of the Self on the Quality of Life in breast cancer patients and survivors. The current project proposes the need for a renovated definition of the Self with the integration …
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Breast Cancer Risk For Female Relatives of Male Breast Cancer Patients With Negative Brca1/2 Testing
… exist to estimate a female’s lifetime risk of breast cancer in the absence of a hereditary predisposition to cancer, namely Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer syndrome. These risk models consider various factors such as reproductive history and family history, but few models take a family …
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The molecular pathology of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer patients from the West of Scotland
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Self-stigma, trust in the oncologists and information seeking behaviors in breast cancer patients and survivors
… characteristics in various treatment phases of breast cancer (BC) and how this impacts patients’ trust in the treating oncologist in the prognosis communication experience, as well as the BC patients' different information seeking behaviors: (i) Self-Stigma Characteristics in BC Treatment Stages …
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Exploring unique features and Mediterranean diet patterns of breast cancer patients in North Cyprus: implications for recovery
… of the diet can influence outcomes for breast cancer (BC) patients in Northern Cyprus, and to assess attitudes and dietary habits of BC patients during recovery. The research was undertaken in North Cyprus and and investigated the dietary habits of a cohort of 140 BC patients with a view …
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