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“From chemo to chemo”—the temporal paradox of chemotherapy

PURPOSE: To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. METHODS: A combination of consensual qualitative research and Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology. RESULTS: The key phenomenon found and pre-reflectively organizing the patients’ experience was the tempora...

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Autores principales: Moskalewicz, Marcin, Popova, Yanna, Wiertlewska-Bielarz, Jadwiga
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8163672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33619675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06039-6
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Sumario:PURPOSE: To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. METHODS: A combination of consensual qualitative research and Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology. RESULTS: The key phenomenon found and pre-reflectively organizing the patients’ experience was the temporal paradox of chemotherapy—a sense of both acceleration and deceleration in between chemotherapy sessions that desynchronizes patients with the time of others. CONCLUSION: The experienced paradoxes concentrating around the timings of the chemotherapy treatments are of particular relevance for supportive care. It is particularly important to acknowledge the disturbing effect of the cyclical nature of chemotherapy.