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Showing 1 to 20 of 297 for “"Survivorship"”.
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Breast Cancer Patient Preparedness for Transition to Survivorship: Individualized Survivorship Care Plans
… guidelines that include providing individualized survivorship care plans (SCP’s). At a northern California oncology department, SCP’s will be prepared for breast cancer patients and delivered in-person by the oncology nurse navigator (ONN).</p> <p><em>Method.</em> The author worked with the ONN to …
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Adult Cancer Survivorship: An Evaluation of Survivorship Care Planning and Follow-Up
… of cancer survivors continues to rise, making survivorship care an increasingly important phase along the continuum of cancer care. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the emerging field of survivorship care, including care planning and follow-up, in survivors of different types …
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Colon Cancer Survivorship Experiences
The purpose of this project is to explore potential social cognitive and psychosocial predictors of lifestyle changes, including diet and physical activity behaviors, in a sample of colorectal cancer survivors who are at high risk of developing a second colorectal cancer. Participants, recruited …
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The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship
… the person's life. Experiences of victimhood and survivorship prove challengingly intangible in a discursive landscape of denial, appropriation, invalidation, and dismissal. The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship takes the firsthand testaments of selected victims and survivors of sexual …
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Cancer Survivorship: Promoting a Lifetime of Health
… and expanding ongoing supportive clinical survivorship care. <em>Methods </em>An adapted Dr. Joanne Lester survivorship needs survey was given to n=7 post-cancer treatment patients within a northern California cancer patient advisory committee. The survey results were analyzed to identify …
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Reproduction And Survivorship Of Two Species Of Daphnidae
The reproduction and survivorship of Scapholeberis kingi and Simocephalus serrulatus were studied at 10°, 15°, 20°, and 25°C. Life tables were calculated at all temperatures from survivorship data for each species. Replacement rates of S. kingi and S. serrulatus, respectively, were 0.715 and 2.789 …
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Body Invasion: Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life
… study reflects the quality of life at a time in survivorship of twelve individuals who were diagnosed with cancer between ages 19-34. Three sources of data administered at one session, the quality of life SF-36v2™ Health Survey semi-structured interview, and facial expression art therapy …
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Intrinsic properties of bone as predictors of differential survivorship
… This research examines the differential survivorship of human skeletal remains based on intrinsic properties (density, size, and shape) of bone. Fifty skeletons from the William M. Bass Forensic Skeletal Collection at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville were measured to determine bone …
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Hodgkin's Lymphoma survivors' intentions to follow survivorship care plans
… Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL) survivors had towards survivorship care plans (SCPs) and how those factors impact their intentions to follow a care plan. Participants were HL survivors who had completed treatment. An online self-reporting questionnaire was used to assess demographics and questions …
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Testicular cancer – response adapted treatment, prognostic markers and survivorship issues
In the US and most European countries, testicular cancer is the most common malignancy in young men aged 20-40 years. Since the introduction of cisplatin-based treatment in the 1970s, more than 95% of the patients are cured. The increasing incidence of testicular cancer and high survival rates, has …
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Cancer Survivorship: Couples' Communication and Adjustment After Treatment Is Complete
… for normatively coping with cancer survivorship.
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Surviving Higher Education: Retention & Persistence Through The Lens Of Psychological Survivorship
<p>The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological study was to examine the lived experiences of students categorized as at-risk, non-traditional adult learners who persisted in pursuit of their higher education degree. These students demonstrated perseverance and grit when faced with …
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Survivorship bias in mutual fund performance : evidence in Canadian mutual funds
This paper examines the influence of the survivorship bias on performance persistence in Canadian mutual funds. Our sample covers the period of January 1986 till December 1999. Spreads of the survivorship bias on mutual fund returns are gauged by comparing the difference between the sample of …
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Substrate dependant survivorship of Ecklonia maxima, in southern African kelp communities
Several south-western Cape Ecklonia maxima communities were examined to determine their basic demography and the effects of substrate selection. Overall percentage substrate composition, stipe lengths and substrate attachment for all kelps were recorded at four sites off the Cape Peninsula. …
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Survivorship of ploidy-variable unisexual <i>ambystoma</i> aalamanders across developmental stages
… produce ploidy-variable offspring that differ in survivorship to adulthood. These populations reproduce through kleptogenesis, persisting by stealing genetic material from males of compatible bisexual <em>Ambystoma</em> species (e.g., Jefferson's Salamander <em>A. jeffersonianum</em>, and the …
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Critical illness survivorship and implications for care provision; a constructivist grounded theory
Background In the context of increasing survivorship from critical illness it is important to enhance our understanding of the subjective experience of survivors and their families. The critical illness experience is enormously complex, varied and multifaceted. The need to consider the legacy of …
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Rehearsal for survivorship: a qualitative analysis of later life husbands and wives
… of the literature on adjustment to widowhood and survivorship reveals gaps in qualitative and quantitative studies which explore anticipatory processes for this expectable life event. Studies focusing on men anticipating this time of life are rare to non-existent. This is a qualitative study on …
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The Duty to Survive Well: Neoliberal Governance, Temporality and Breast Cancer Survivorship Discourse
… 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 sample …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Psychological Resources and Breast Cancer Survivorship using Path Analysis
… 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 post-treatment. …
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