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Investigating Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Survivorship Care
Head and neck cancer (HNC) accounts for 4% of all cancers diagnosed in the US, with 75% in adults over 55 years of age. HNC survivors must deal with the long-term consequences of the cancer and its treatments, which can have significant long-term physical, psychosocial, and financial consequences, d...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742266/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1391 |
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author | Seaman, Aaron Saeidzadeh, Seyedehtanaz Kendell, Nicholas Christensen, Alan Thomsen, Timothy Reisinger, Heather Pagedar, Nitin |
author_facet | Seaman, Aaron Saeidzadeh, Seyedehtanaz Kendell, Nicholas Christensen, Alan Thomsen, Timothy Reisinger, Heather Pagedar, Nitin |
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description | Head and neck cancer (HNC) accounts for 4% of all cancers diagnosed in the US, with 75% in adults over 55 years of age. HNC survivors must deal with the long-term consequences of the cancer and its treatments, which can have significant long-term physical, psychosocial, and financial consequences, dramatically impacting survivors’ lives. While research has identified the unmet needs of HNC survivors, there has been little examination of HNC survivors’ experiences living with a cancer history and engaging in survivorship care. To explore survivors’ experiences and their attitudes toward their survivorship care, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 22 HNC survivors whose survivorship care was managed within the HNC program of an academic tertiary care institution. Participants’ mean age was 65 years old, ranging from 33 to 86. The majority of the participants were male (68%), white (96%), married (81%), and had some college education or a higher degree (81%). One third of participants (n=7) had rural residence, as defined by the Rural-Urban Continuum Codes. Participants reported a wide range of experiences based on multiple factors: cancer site, staging, and treatment; their expectations prior to treatment; and personal and social context. They varied in their approaches toward understanding and incorporating the impacts of their cancer experience, from physical side effects of treatment to social impacts. They described the importance of survivorship care both in physical and social terms. We discuss the implications of these results for future interventions to improve HNC survivorship care delivery. |
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spelling | pubmed-77422662020-12-21 Investigating Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Survivorship Care Seaman, Aaron Saeidzadeh, Seyedehtanaz Kendell, Nicholas Christensen, Alan Thomsen, Timothy Reisinger, Heather Pagedar, Nitin Innov Aging Abstracts Head and neck cancer (HNC) accounts for 4% of all cancers diagnosed in the US, with 75% in adults over 55 years of age. HNC survivors must deal with the long-term consequences of the cancer and its treatments, which can have significant long-term physical, psychosocial, and financial consequences, dramatically impacting survivors’ lives. While research has identified the unmet needs of HNC survivors, there has been little examination of HNC survivors’ experiences living with a cancer history and engaging in survivorship care. To explore survivors’ experiences and their attitudes toward their survivorship care, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 22 HNC survivors whose survivorship care was managed within the HNC program of an academic tertiary care institution. Participants’ mean age was 65 years old, ranging from 33 to 86. The majority of the participants were male (68%), white (96%), married (81%), and had some college education or a higher degree (81%). One third of participants (n=7) had rural residence, as defined by the Rural-Urban Continuum Codes. Participants reported a wide range of experiences based on multiple factors: cancer site, staging, and treatment; their expectations prior to treatment; and personal and social context. They varied in their approaches toward understanding and incorporating the impacts of their cancer experience, from physical side effects of treatment to social impacts. They described the importance of survivorship care both in physical and social terms. We discuss the implications of these results for future interventions to improve HNC survivorship care delivery. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7742266/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1391 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Seaman, Aaron Saeidzadeh, Seyedehtanaz Kendell, Nicholas Christensen, Alan Thomsen, Timothy Reisinger, Heather Pagedar, Nitin Investigating Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Survivorship Care |
title | Investigating Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Survivorship Care |
title_full | Investigating Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Survivorship Care |
title_fullStr | Investigating Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Survivorship Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigating Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Survivorship Care |
title_short | Investigating Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Survivorship Care |
title_sort | investigating head and neck cancer survivors’ experience of survivorship care |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742266/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1391 |
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