Financial toxicitySocial supportPurpose Little is known about how breast cancer may impact survivors' financial well-being. This study aims to investigate the financial status, burden, and opinions of breast cancer survivors who received short-term financial assistance, emotional support, and resource ...
Interestingly, this study found that having any education has a stronger association to BCA than a previous family history of breast cancer. Perhaps women with education have a greater ability to raise themselves above fatalism and realise that seeking medical advice early may make a difference. ...
The risk of breast cancer patients for long-term side effects of therapy such as neurotoxicity and cardiotoxicity as well as late effects regarding comorbidities varies from individual to individual. Personalised follow-up care concepts that are tailored to individual needs and the risk of recurrences...
Employee Assistance Programs. These programs offer help with personal issues that may affect your ability to do your job. For example, they may help you with financial and emotional concerns. Disability policies. If advanced breast cancer prevents you from being able to work, you may qualify f...
divergent needs of populations worldwide. Malnutrition increases susceptibility tooral diseases, andmicronutrientdeficiencies may be manifested first in theoral cavity. Alternatively, dietary excesses can lead to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer that may impact the integrity of the oral...
We used the data from the same five main sources previously used for PredictCBC models to develop the PredictCBC-2.0 models including updated follow-up information, additional patients, and invasive or in situ CBC events [15]. Two studies were additionally included from the Breast Cancer Associati...
To understand the dynamics that limit use of risk-management options by women at high risk of breast cancer, there is a critical need for research that focuses on patient perspectives. Prior research has left important gaps: exclusion of high-risk women not in risk-related clinical care, exclus...
resources. An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides meaningful services such as family counseling and mental healthcare. Additionally, voluntary benefits like a cancer policy can offer financial relief for expenses such as family lodging when receiving treatment or procedures essential ...
6. Ask about financial assistance programs. Another major barrier for some Black women with breast cancer is the financial cost, Dr. Oppong says. In addition to being emotionally and physically taxing, treatment can be very expensive, to say the least. ...
While some women spoke positively of their husbands, highlighting their financial and moral support, several also spoke of their husbands abandoning them and taking on a co-wife at the time of diagnosis. Women explained their husbands' abandonment after cancer diagnosis or amputation by fear of the...