PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the needs of testicular cancer survivors, develop a nurse-led workshop, and explore the experience of participation. RESEARCH APPROACH A systematic intervention development process was used to design a self-management workshop for cancer survivors, which then was evaluated qualitatively. SETTING Outpatient clinic in England. PARTICIPANTS 26 healthcare profes...

OBJECTIVE To describe cancer screening rates for cancer survivors and compare them with those for matched controls. DESIGN Population-based, retrospective study with individuals linked across administrative databases. SETTING Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Survivors of breast (n = 11 219), colorectal (n = 4348), or endometrial (n = 3473) cancer, or Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) (n = 2071) matched to gener...

PURPOSE Childhood cancer survivors are at risk for long-term morbidity and early mortality. Since most adult and some adolescent survivors of childhood cancer will receive their long-term care from a primary care physician, we sought to determine family physicians' comfort with caring for this population. METHODS A survey was mailed to 2,520 United States (US) and Canadian family physicians t...

CONTEXT Sixty-three percent of cancer survivors continue to work, or return to work after treatment. Among this population, work ability and challenges encountered in the workplace by young adult cancer survivors have not been well established. PURPOSE The purposes of the study are to describe what is currently known about work-related issues for young adult cancer survivors diagnosed between...

BACKGROUND Despite extensive data on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among cancer survivors, we do not yet have an estimate of the percentage of survivors with poor mental and physical HRQOL compared with population norms. HRQOL population means for adult-onset cancer survivors of all ages and across the survivorship trajectory also have not been published. METHODS Survivors (N = 1,822...

The purpose of this observational study was to determine if the Protection Motivation Theory could predict and explain adherence to aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy among breast cancer survivors. Purposive sampling was used to identify 288 survivors who had been prescribed AI therapy. A valid and reliable survey was mailed to survivors. A total of 145 survivors completed the survey. The Morisky...

The relations between survivors and disability and between the survivors' and disabled people's movements are complex and there is little agreement about them. For example, there was only one mention of survivors in Jane Campbell and Mike Oliver's major examination of disability politics and the only organisation referred to is an organisation for mental health service users (Campbell and Olive...

Background: Providing care to a disable relative at home exposesthe caregiver to a potentially higher risk of physical and mentalproblems. We measured health-related quality of life (HRQOL) andits determinants among the caregivers of the Iranian survivors of theIran-Iraq war (1980–1988) with bilateral lower-limb amputation.Methods: Data were collected from 464 individuals comprisingwar-related ...

There are nearly 12 million cancer survivors living in the US today, and these individuals are at risk for long-term physical complications of treatment. Although development of less toxic treatments such as targeted therapies is helping to decrease the risk of physical effects in individual survivors, the absolute burden of physical complications in cancer survivors is increasing owing to grow...