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In this book the authors bring their combined expertise in medical communication and linguistics, and also in biology of disease and behaviour, to the multidisciplinary task of understanding the psychology of cancer patients. The approach of the book is integrative of the individual and the social, but also of the longer-term evolutionary dimensions of cancer. The relationships between cancer and behaviour and between biological and social factors, including doctor-patient communication and institutional issues relevant to medical training are addressed in detail, warts and all.

Dit boek geeft de lezer inzicht in het proces dat patiënten doorlopen tijdens een (chronische) ziekte. Dat proces loopt van de eerste klachten, naar de diagnose, de behandeling, het leren leven met de ziekte en het mogelijk sterven als gevolg van de ziekte. De meeste aandacht gaat hierbij uit naar het perspectief van de patiënt, de psychosociale adaptatie aan de ziekte en de verandering van gedrag door het planmatig bevorderen van gezondheid. De volgende vragen spelen daarbij een rol: Welke psychologische processen maakt een patiënt door?

Dit boek verschaft beter inzicht in de zorg rond het levenseinde, met nadruk op 'het leven'. Het wil iedere burger mondig maken tegenover de medische wereld.

Abstract: As the concept of distress as the 6th vital sign gains strength in cancer care, research on the experience of patients is critical. This study longitudinally examined patients’ physical and psychosocial concerns over the year following diagnosis.

Methods: Between July 2007 and February 2008, patients attending a large tertiary cancer centre were recruited to participate in a study examining their levels of distress, pain, fatigue, depression and anxiety over a year.

Abstract: This randomized controlled trial examined the impact of an online routine screening for distress program on physical symptoms and common psychosocial and practical problems in lung cancer outpatients.

Abstract: We conducted this study with the aim of demonstrating the feasibility and efficacy of speed- feedback therapy with a bicycle ergometer on cognitive function in elderly cancer patients.

Abstract: This cross-sectional study investigated the relationships between individual differences in coping and catastrophizing, and markers of adaptation to chronic pain associated with breast cancer. Sixty-eight breast cancer patients with chronic pain due to either cancer or cancer-treatment were administered self-report instruments that assess active and passive coping, catastrophizing, pain, disability, and mood disturbance. Regression analyses were performed to investigate the unique contribution of differences in coping and catastrophizing to the various markers of adaptation.

Abstract:This study examined whether workplace support, sociodemographic factors and co- morbidity are associated with early retirement or non-employment due to other reasons among breast cancer survivors. We also compared quality of life and chronic symptoms (pain, fatigue, anxiety and depression) among employed, retired and other non-employed breast cancer survivors.