Another tip states that young cancer patients know how to manage physical changes due to treatment and to be prepare for it. Lastly, young adults with cancer are encouraged to seek support like attending support groups to ...
Gupta, A. A., Edelstein, K., Albert-Green, A. & D'Agostino, N. Assessing information and service needs of young adults with cancer at a single institution. The importance of information on cancer diagnosis, fertility preservation, diet, and exercise.Support. Care Cancer21, 2477–2484 (2013...
Volunteer groups improve quality of life for young cancer patientsGREER FAY CASHMAN
Support is essential for people affected by a life-threatening illness such as cancer, but in rural areas resources, such as support groups, may be few and far apart, adding isolation to the burden. This article looks at a program aimed at overcoming isolation and providing support to young ...
Self-management support and eHealth for patients and informal caregivers confronted with advanced cancer: an online focus group study among nurses. BMC Palliat Care. 2017;16(1):1–2 (PMID: 29162081). Article Google Scholar Darley A, Coughlan B, Furlong E. People with cancer and their family...
5. Join a cancer support group. Support groups bring people with common experiences together to share and learn from one another. Norton Cancer Institute offers two resources for young adult cancer survivors: The Young Adult Transition Clinic provides childhood cancer survivors ages 15 to 39 with ...
Younger women diagnosed with breast cancer express more psycho-emotional concerns than older women because younger women are facing problems with fertility, disruption to their young families, disruption to their careers, and lower libido during a time of higher sexual activity. Support groups create ...
All malignant cancer types, as defined in the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases, chapter II (Neoplasms),18 were categorised into 32 cancer groups in this analysis, called causes in GBD and this Article. Non-melanoma skin cancers were excluded, since they are not a...
We tested the hypothesis that body mass index (BMI) aged 20 years modifies the association of adult weight gain and breast cancer risk. We recruited women (aged 47–73 years) into the PROCAS (Predicting Risk Of Cancer At Screening; Manchester, UK: 2009–
professionals could support working cancer survivors. Hence, this review provides a comprehensive analysis of what is known about young adult cancer survivors and employment. Young adult survivors are an understudied population compared with other age groups who undergo complicated journeys because of ...