“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
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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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Popova, Yanna
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-81636722021-06-17 “From chemo to chemo”—the temporal paradox of chemotherapy Moskalewicz, Marcin Popova, Yanna Wiertlewska-Bielarz, Jadwiga Support Care Cancer Commentary 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. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-02-22 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8163672/ /pubmed/33619675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06039-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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