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Beyond treatment – Psychosocial and behavioural issues in cancer survivorship research and practice

The population of cancer survivors has grown steadily over the past several decades. Surviving cancer, however, is not synonymous with a life free of problems related to the disease and its treatment. In this paper we provide a brief overview of selected physical and psychosocial health problems pre...

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Autores principales: Aaronson, Neil K., Mattioli, Vittorio, Minton, Ollie, Weis, Joachim, Johansen, Christoffer, Dalton, Susanne O., Verdonck-de Leeuw, Irma M., Stein, Kevin D., Alfano, Catherine M., Mehnert, Anja, de Boer, Angela, van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4250535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcsup.2014.03.005
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author Aaronson, Neil K.
Mattioli, Vittorio
Minton, Ollie
Weis, Joachim
Johansen, Christoffer
Dalton, Susanne O.
Verdonck-de Leeuw, Irma M.
Stein, Kevin D.
Alfano, Catherine M.
Mehnert, Anja
de Boer, Angela
van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke V.
author_facet Aaronson, Neil K.
Mattioli, Vittorio
Minton, Ollie
Weis, Joachim
Johansen, Christoffer
Dalton, Susanne O.
Verdonck-de Leeuw, Irma M.
Stein, Kevin D.
Alfano, Catherine M.
Mehnert, Anja
de Boer, Angela
van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke V.
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description The population of cancer survivors has grown steadily over the past several decades. Surviving cancer, however, is not synonymous with a life free of problems related to the disease and its treatment. In this paper we provide a brief overview of selected physical and psychosocial health problems prevalent among cancer survivors, namely pain, fatigue, psychological distress and work participation. We also address issues surrounding self-management and e-Health interventions for cancer survivors, and programmes to encourage survivors to adopt healthier lifestyles. Finally, we discuss approaches to assessing health-related quality of life in cancer survivors, and the use of cancer registries in conducting psychosocial survivorship research. We highlight research and practice priorities in each of these areas. While the priorities vary per topic, common themes that emerged included: (1) Symptoms should not be viewed in isolation, but rather as part of a cluster of interrelated symptoms. This has implications for both understanding the aetiology of symptoms and for their treatment; (2) Psychosocial interventions need to be evidence-based, and where possible should be tailored to the needs of the individual cancer survivor. Relatively low cost interventions with self-management and e-Health elements may be appropriate for the majority of survivors, with resource intensive interventions being reserved for those most in need; (3) More effort should be devoted to disseminating and implementing interventions in practice, and to evaluating their cost-effectiveness; and (4) Greater attention should be paid to the needs of vulnerable and high-risk populations of survivors, including the socioeconomically disadvantaged and the elderly.
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spelling pubmed-42505352014-12-04 Beyond treatment – Psychosocial and behavioural issues in cancer survivorship research and practice Aaronson, Neil K. Mattioli, Vittorio Minton, Ollie Weis, Joachim Johansen, Christoffer Dalton, Susanne O. Verdonck-de Leeuw, Irma M. Stein, Kevin D. Alfano, Catherine M. Mehnert, Anja de Boer, Angela van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke V. EJC Suppl Article The population of cancer survivors has grown steadily over the past several decades. Surviving cancer, however, is not synonymous with a life free of problems related to the disease and its treatment. In this paper we provide a brief overview of selected physical and psychosocial health problems prevalent among cancer survivors, namely pain, fatigue, psychological distress and work participation. We also address issues surrounding self-management and e-Health interventions for cancer survivors, and programmes to encourage survivors to adopt healthier lifestyles. Finally, we discuss approaches to assessing health-related quality of life in cancer survivors, and the use of cancer registries in conducting psychosocial survivorship research. We highlight research and practice priorities in each of these areas. While the priorities vary per topic, common themes that emerged included: (1) Symptoms should not be viewed in isolation, but rather as part of a cluster of interrelated symptoms. This has implications for both understanding the aetiology of symptoms and for their treatment; (2) Psychosocial interventions need to be evidence-based, and where possible should be tailored to the needs of the individual cancer survivor. Relatively low cost interventions with self-management and e-Health elements may be appropriate for the majority of survivors, with resource intensive interventions being reserved for those most in need; (3) More effort should be devoted to disseminating and implementing interventions in practice, and to evaluating their cost-effectiveness; and (4) Greater attention should be paid to the needs of vulnerable and high-risk populations of survivors, including the socioeconomically disadvantaged and the elderly. Elsevier 2014-06 2014-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4250535/ /pubmed/26217166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcsup.2014.03.005 Text en © 2014 European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer. Published by Elsevier Limited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Stein, Kevin D.
Alfano, Catherine M.
Mehnert, Anja
de Boer, Angela
van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke V.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217166
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