Breast cancer (BC)is the most common malignant tumor in women. Around 50% of BC receptor-positive patients are hormone-dependent cases, and it is necessary for them to use endocrine after operation. Through inhibition of estrogen level the target of BC cell growth is reached. Hot flashes and...
Context: Women with breast cancer treated with aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy experience multiple concurrent symptoms or symptom clusters. Understanding of the symptom experience and identifying symptom clusters before and during AI therapy are important for the development of interventions to improve clin...
Worldwide, breast cancer is the most common type, followed by lung and prostate cancer, and its rate of incidence in women is three times that of the rates of colorectal or lung cancer.1 The incidence of breast cancer varies widely around the world, and it is highest in the developed cou...
Symptom control in women with advanced breast cancer. Metastatic breast cancer is essentially incurable. It is a chronic disease characterised by remissions and exacerbations that inevitably result in the death of the patient. Symptoms present as a sign of progressive disease or can result from treatm...
FG Dekeyser,JM Wainstock,L Rose,PJ Converse,W Dooley 摘要: To investigate distress and its association with immune function among women with suspected breast cancer. Prospective, descriptive, correlational study. An outpatient breast clinic at a tertiary urban hospital. A convenience sample of ...
Background: breast cancer patients were found to experience multiple concurrent symptoms. These concurrent symptoms (termed symptom cluster) could have synergistic effects on patient functional status and quality of life. Understanding symptom cluster provided us new insight in symptom assessment and symptom...
(1999) Cimprich. Cancer Nursing. Although the initial phase of illness is recognized as important in the overall process of adjustment after a diagnosis of breast cancer, little is known about pretreatment patterns of symptom distress. Seventy-four women
Campaigns aimed at raising cancer awareness and encouraging early presentation have been implemented in England. However, little is known about whether people with low cancer awareness and increased barriers to seeking medical help have worse cancer surv
Women's knowledge and beliefs regarding breast cancer. Approximately 20-30% of women delay for 12 weeks or more from self-discovery of a breast symptom to presentation to a health care provider, and such delay ... Grunfeld,A E.,Ramirez,... - 《British Journal of Cancer》...
The BCPT Symptom Scales: A Measure of Physical Symptoms for Women Diagnosed With or at Risk for Breast Cancer The BCPT symptom scales: a measure of physical symptoms for women diagnosed with or at risk for breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005;97:448-56... AL Stanton,CA Bernaards,PA...