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Preliminary effects of a yoga intervention for lung cancer dyads: benefits for care partners
Lung cancer is a disease with high mortality and morbidity, impacting both the patient and their closest contact, referred to in this paper as their care partner. There is limited evidence on how to support me...
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Associations between perceptions of relationship quality and markers of inflammation and insulin resistance among couples co** with cancer
Among married couples living with breast and prostate cancer, positive perceptions of relationship quality by both survivors and their spouses were associated with lower inflammation or insulin resistance in t...
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Open AccessTaking Care of Us© (TCU) study protocol: feasibility and acceptability of a dyadic intervention for couples living with heart failure
There are more than 1 million hospital admissions and 3 million emergency visits for heart failure in the USA annually. Although spouse/partners make substantial contributions to the management of heart failur...
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Open AccessOpening the Conversation: study protocol for a Phase III trial to evaluate a couple-based intervention to reduce reproductive and sexual distress among young adult breast and gynecologic cancer survivor couples
Reproductive and sexual health (RSH) concerns are common and distressing for young adults diagnosed with breast and gynecologic cancer and their partners. This study evaluates the efficacy of a virtual couple-...
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Symptom Frequency and Distress Underestimated in Decompensated Cirrhosis
Studies assessing multiple symptoms and the distress of these symptoms in decompensated cirrhosis are lacking.
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Delivering exercise medicine to cancer survivors: has COVID-19 shifted the landscape for how and who can be reached with supervised group exercise?
Due to stay-at-home orders during COVID-19, we transitioned supervised, group, in-person resistance training interventions in two clinical trials in cancer survivors to live, online delivery using video-confer...
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Open AccessA pilot feasibility study of Exercising Together© during radiation therapy for prostate cancer: a dyadic approach for patients and spouses
Prostate cancer can negatively impact the health of patients and their spouse, particularly early on in the cancer trajectory.
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Open AccessStudy protocol for the Exercising Together© trial: a randomized, controlled trial of partnered exercise for couples co** with cancer
Most cancer survivors are married, and cancer strains the physical and mental health of each partner and their intimate relationship. We created a partnered strength training program, Exercising Together©, whe...
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Trends in integrative medicine and health consults: differences between cancer survivors and patients without cancer
The objectives were to compare patients with and without cancer who sought an integrative health (IH) consult and reasons for seeking a consult.
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Navigating sexual health in cancer survivorship: a dyadic perspective
This qualitative study examined how young adult breast cancer survivors (YABCS) and their partners appraised and managed their sexual health and intimate relationships after cancer.
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Benefits of partnered strength training for prostate cancer survivors and spouses: results from a randomized controlled trial of the Exercising Together project
Prostate cancer can negatively impact quality of life of the patient and his spouse caregiver, but interventions rarely target the health of both partners simultaneously. We tested the feasibility and prelimin...
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Computerized patient-reported symptom assessment in radiotherapy: a pilot randomized, controlled trial
Computer-based, patient-reported symptom survey tools have been described for patients undergoing chemotherapy. We hypothesized that patients undergoing radiotherapy might also benefit, so we developed a compu...
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Incongruent perceptions of pain and physical function among families living with lung cancer
The purpose of the study was to examine the roles of concealment and communication in incongruence in perceptions of the lung cancer patient’s physical function and pain severity.
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Patterns and predictors of symptom incongruence in older couples co** with prostate cancer
Prostate cancer survivors (PCSs) may experience persistent symptoms following treatment. If PCSs and spouses differ in their perceptions of symptoms, that incongruence may cause mismanagement of symptoms and r...
