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Open AccessThe association of cancer-related fatigue on the social, vocational and healthcare-related dimensions of cancer survivorship
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is well documented in cancer survivors, but little is known about the personal and societal impact of CRF. This study aimed to examine the impact of CRF in relation to social and v...
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Palliative Patients, Symptom Cluster Measurement
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Cancer-related cognitive impairment in patients with non-central nervous system malignancies: an overview for oncology providers from the MASCC Neurological Complications Study Group
Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is commonly experienced by individuals with non-central nervous system cancers throughout the disease and treatment trajectory. CRCI can have a substantial impact on ...
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Open AccessExperiences of shared decision-making in community rehabilitation: a focused ethnography
Shared decision-making (SDM) can advance patient satisfaction, understanding, goal fulfilment, and patient-reported outcomes. We lack clarity on whether this physician-focused literature applies to community r...
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Cancer-Related Fatigue
This chapter describes what is currently known about cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in individuals who are receiving treatment for cancer or who are cancer survivors. Significance and prevalence rates are review...
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Assessing cognitive function in adults during or following chemotherapy: a sco** review
The purpose of this sco** review was to determine the feasibility of conducting a systematic review of approaches for screening or assessing cognitive function that were comprehensive and that could be incor...
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Cancer-related fatigue and associated disability in post-treatment cancer survivors
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is the most prevalent and distressing symptom among cancer patients and survivors. However, research on its prevalence and related disability in the post-treatment survivorship per...
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Erratum to: The biology of cancer-related fatigue: a review of the literature
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A state-of-the-art review of the management and treatment of taste and smell alterations in adult oncology patients
The purpose of this review was to examine studies of interventions for the prevention and management of taste and smell alterations (TSA) experienced by adult oncology patients.
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The biology of cancer-related fatigue: a review of the literature
Understanding the etiology of cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is critical to identify targets to develop therapies to reduce CRF burden. The goal of this systematic review was to expand on the initial work by the...
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Palliative Patients, Symptom Cluster Measurement
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Comparing two approaches for studying symptom clusters: factor analysis and structural equation modeling
We investigated alternative ways of understanding the relationships among co-occurring symptoms in individuals with advanced cancer. While factor analysis has been increasingly used to identify symptom cluster...
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The head and neck symptom checklist©: an instrument to evaluate nutrition impact symptoms effect on energy intake and weight loss
This study aimed to validate the Head and Neck Patient Symptom Checklist© (HNSC©) by tracing the prevalence and interference with eating of nutrition impact symptoms (NIS) over time and by examining relationships...
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A Pan-Canadian practice guideline: prevention, screening, assessment, and treatment of sleep disturbances in adults with cancer
This study aims to provide recommendations on the optimal strategies and interventions for the prevention, screening, assessment, and management of cancer-related sleep disturbance (insomnia and insomnia syndr...
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Validation of the Head and Neck Patient Symptom Checklist as a nutrition impact symptom assessment tool for head and neck cancer patients
The purpose of this study was to test the validity of the Head and Neck Patient Symptom Checklist (HNSC).
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Open AccessA study of Iranian immigrants’ experiences of accessing Canadian health care services: a grounded theory
Immigration is not a new phenomenon but, rather, has deep roots in human history. Documents from every era detail individuals who left their homelands and struggled to reestablish their lives in other countrie...
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Symptom assessment in ambulatory oncology: initial validation of the nurse-developed Modified Ambulatory Care Flow Sheet (MACFS)
This paper reports relationships between symptoms assessed using a newly developed instrument for assessing patient-reported symptoms, the Modified Ambulatory Care Flow Sheet (MACFS), and other symptom assessm...
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Chapter
Cancer-Related Fatigue
This chapter describes what is currently known about cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in cancer survivors. Significance and prevalence rates are reviewed and definitions are discussed within the context of the nee...
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Temporal changes in the causal foundations of palliative care symptoms
We use longitudinal data to test and extend a structural equation model documenting changes in the causal connections among symptoms experienced in the final weeks of life. Our central thesis is that the relie...
