Helping patients to help themselves after breast cancer treatment
Helping patients to help themselves after breast cancer treatment
There is a rise in the number of women living with the long-term consequences of cancer and continuing to suffer unmet need as breast cancer survival improves. This paper includes an introduction to self-management and a discussion of the evidence around the effectiveness of the key intervention types that could help patients to help themselves after treatment. Self-management interventions are particularly beneficial in reducing bother from symptoms, without patients having to take on the additional burden of more unwanted side-effects frequently seen with pharmacological interventions. There is a need to prioritise the funding of these financially viable self-management strategies to ensure equity of access and that these interventions are available for those in need.
cancer survivors, confidence, self-efficacy, self-management
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Fenlon, Debbie
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Khambhaita, Priya
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Hunter, Myra
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27 November 2015
Fenlon, Debbie
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Khambhaita, Priya
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Hunter, Myra
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Fenlon, Debbie, Khambhaita, Priya and Hunter, Myra
(2015)
Helping patients to help themselves after breast cancer treatment.
[in special issue: Survivorship Issues in Radiation Oncology]
Clinical Oncology, 27 (11), .
(doi:10.1016/j.clon.2015.05.002).
Abstract
There is a rise in the number of women living with the long-term consequences of cancer and continuing to suffer unmet need as breast cancer survival improves. This paper includes an introduction to self-management and a discussion of the evidence around the effectiveness of the key intervention types that could help patients to help themselves after treatment. Self-management interventions are particularly beneficial in reducing bother from symptoms, without patients having to take on the additional burden of more unwanted side-effects frequently seen with pharmacological interventions. There is a need to prioritise the funding of these financially viable self-management strategies to ensure equity of access and that these interventions are available for those in need.
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Accepted/In Press date: 11 May 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 June 2015
Published date: 27 November 2015
Keywords:
cancer survivors, confidence, self-efficacy, self-management
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Faculty of Health Sciences
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Local EPrints ID: 385491
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/385491
ISSN: 0936-6555
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Myra Hunter
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