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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Cancer Survivorship"”.
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Colon Cancer Survivorship Experiences
… activity behaviors, in a sample of colorectal cancer survivors who are at high risk of developing a second colorectal cancer. Participants, recruited from Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, are colorectal cancer survivors from families at high or confirmed risk of …
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Cancer Survivorship: Promoting a Lifetime of Health
<p>Abstract</p> <p><em>Introduction </em>Cancer survivors can face post-cancer treatment effects that need addressing throughout their care trajectory. Education provided to stakeholders and patients will be beneficial in preventing fragmented care, increasing patient satisfaction, and expanding …
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Body Invasion: Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life
… with a health problem. The experience of a cancer diagnosis a. a young age is life changing. Physical and psychological complications result from not only the surprise of a cancer diagnosis but from the late effects of the cancer treatment. Since more individuals are surviving the initial …
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Cancer Survivorship: Couples' Communication and Adjustment After Treatment Is Complete
Improved cancer treatments have resulted in more positive prognoses and many more people are now living longer beyond treatment. Accompanied with such medical advancements, however, are the uncertainties and dilemmas associated with surviving cancer. These challenges affect not only the survivors …
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Adult Cancer Survivorship: An Evaluation of Survivorship Care Planning and Follow-Up
Over 1 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer in a given year and currently there are approximately 12 million cancer survivors in the United States. With improved detection strategies and medical advances, the number of cancer survivors continues to rise, making survivorship care an …
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The Duty to Survive Well: Neoliberal Governance, Temporality and Breast Cancer Survivorship Discourse
… critically examines how discourses of breast cancer survivorship are constructed within professional and popular fields of knowledge production. In this thesis, I used critical discourse analysis (CDA) methods informed by Foucauldian, feminist, and queer theoretical perspectives to analyze a …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Psychological Resources and Breast Cancer Survivorship using Path Analysis
… and informational) have the ability to influence cancer survivorship. Unknown is how these resources impact the length of survival. A predictive correlational design was used to study the psychological resources of 34 women who were breast cancer survivors and were two years or more …
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The development of a psychosocial intervention to support caregivers in post-treatment cancer survivorship
… caregivers, including across survivorship, is of key importance to ensuring caregivers are able to continue providing long-term informal support to cancer patients in the community. Current cancer caregiving literature suggests that caregiver report unmet needs related to their …
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Communication Channels For Cancer Survivorship: Addressing Information Dissemination, Clinical Trial Recruitment And Social Networking
<p>More people are surviving cancer than ever before due to early detection and advances in treatment (Kazanjian, Smillie, Howard, Ward and Doll, 2009). With a growing group of cancer survivors, a group expected to grow to 18 million by 2020, additional informational resources must be put in place …
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Answering the “Now What?”: The Development of a Transdisciplinary Breast Cancer Survivorship Nonprofit Organization
… are living longer or are surviving breast cancer, the side effects of treatment still leave patients struggling with quality-of-life issues. The lack of whole-person care leaves patients unequipped after treatment is complete, searching for answers and a way to survive on their own. The …
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Self-care activities and quality of life in ovarian cancer survivors
… factors affect quality of life in ovarian cancer survivors. Three hypotheses were derived from the research question: (a) self-care activities are predictors of quality of life, (b) period of cancer survivorship is a predictor of quality of life, (c) selected basic conditioning factors are …
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Women of Faith: Adaptation of African American Women Breast Cancer Survivors
… experience of African American women breast cancer survivors. The African American women's perception of the influence of faith on the breast cancer survivorship experience was explored.</p> <p>This study utilized the directed qualitative content analysis method, which extracted themes and …
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Development of Culturally Tailored Needs Assessments for Sustainable LYTE Foundation Initiatives Leveraging the Support of Public Health Interns
… a nonprofit organization focusing on breast cancer survivorship. Utilizing the assistance of public health interns, the study aims to identify and implement best practices for culturally tailored needs assessment strategies. Through an extensive literature review and real-time management of …
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Narratives of Cancer Survivors in Religious Life
Narratives of Cancer Survivors in Religions Life is a careful consideration of the narratives of cancer survivors, specifically those in Catholic religious life. Through the use of interviews and secondary sources, the author addresses such issues as relationship with God, stigmatization, community …
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Thinking self after bowel cancer: an embodied interpretation and art-iculation
… to an understanding of the experience of cancer survivorship by focusing on survivors’ “comprehending” of self vis-à-vis cancer, specifically by exploring embodied dimensions of their comprehending. This approach sits within an interpretive phenomenological paradigm. It draws, in …
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Thinking self after bowel cancer: an embodied interpretation and art-iculation.
… to an understanding of the experience of cancer survivorship by focusing on survivors’ “comprehending” of self vis-à-vis cancer, specifically by exploring embodied dimensions of their comprehending. This approach sits within an interpretive phenomenological paradigm. It draws, in …
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Joining Forces:establishing A Cardio-Oncology Program
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Patients have been surviving cancer diagnoses at a steady increasing rate over the past few decades. In spite of the encouraging decline in cancer morbidity, the cardiovascular effect of some chemotherapy medications is concerning. Moreover, even though there is extensive …
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Exploring the association between gene sequence polymorphisms within the angiogenesis and extracellular matrix regulatory pathways and shoulder pain and disability following breast cancer treatment
… and disability are common sequelae of breast cancer treatment in women, with an understated negative impact on the quality of life of affected individuals and a poorly characterised aetiology. A better understanding of the aetiology of shoulder pain and disability in breast cancer survivors is …
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Nature-based activities and the health of cancer survivors
Cancer survivorship in the United States continues to grow, with 22.5 million survivors projected by 2032. Despite improved survival rates, cancer survivors often experience persistent physical and psychological challenges. Nature-based interventions have gained attention as accessible, low-cost …
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THE EXPERIENCE OF CANCER PAIN: DEVELOPING INTEGRATED SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR BREAST CANCER PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PAIN INFORMED BY PATIENT AND CAREGIVER INSIGHTS
… affects the quality of life (QoL) of cancer patients and their informal caregivers, necessitating a multidimensional approach to address its complexities. This doctoral thesis synthesizes findings from four years of research, focusing on cancer-related CP, particularly in breast cancer …
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