Screening

(Brussel, 9 oktober 2015) Kom op tegen Kanker bracht de ervaringen van 120 mantelzorgers van kankerpatiënten in Vlaanderen in kaart. Vandaag verschijnen de resultaten in een onderzoeksrapport. Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat de problemen van mantelzorgers meestal onzichtbaar blijven voor zorgverleners. Dat is problematisch aangezien de belasting vaak zo groot is dat ze er zelf dreigen onderdoor te gaan, met alle gevolgen van dien voor de patiënt.

Objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening continues to be underused, particularly by Latinos. CRC and colonoscopy fear, worry, and fatalism have been identified as screening barriers in Latinos. The study purpose was to examine the relationship of optimism, fatalism, worry, and fear in the context of Latinos referred for CRC screening.

Purpose: A clinical pathway for anxiety and depression in adult cancer patients was developed to guide best practice in Australia.

Methods: The pathway was based on a rapid review of existing guidelines, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, stakeholder interviews, a Delphi process with 87 multidisciplinary stakeholders and input from a multidisciplinary advisory panel.

Objectives: The Basic Documentation for Psycho-Oncology (PO-Bado) is a semi-directive instrument for assessing psychosocial difficulties in cancer patients. It is based on subjective status and not on degree of symptom severity. Our objectives were to assess whether use of the PO-Bado during post-cancerdiagnosis consultations improves the quality of communication by establishing a supportive relationship between nurses and patients and to assess nurses’ satisfaction of their communication skills.

Objective: Research documents a disparity between Black and White Americans in mortality for oral cancer that appears to result in part from behaviors such as lower oral cancer screening among Black Americans. We examined barriers to oral cancer screening among Black Americans.

Methods: We surveyed Black Americans (N= 366) living in rural Florida to identify barriers to getting screened for oral cancer.

Background: The Distress Thermometer (DT) has been used in psycho-oncology research across the globe and has been recommended as a clinical tool to be used routinely in cancer settings to detect clinically significant distress. We sought to characterize the translation and validation of the DT in cancer patients in different countries and cultures and summarize how the translated versions function to detect clinically significant distress.

Objective: Although African American (AA) men are at elevated risk for prostate cancer, medical guidelines do not present consistent screening recommendations for this group. However, all guidelines stress the need for screening decision making with a provider. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a brochure for the female partners of AA men, designed to help promote such discussion on the part of their mates. We also explored the effect of the partner’s monitoring style (i.e., the extent to which the partner typically attends to health threats) on promoting discussion.

Objective: To describe the dynamic changes in posttraumatic growth (PTG) and psychological distress in hospitalized early-stage breast cancer (BC) survivors over a 6-month period.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to compare psychological distress (body image disturbance, self-esteem, depression, and anxiety) in women with breast or gynecological cancer treated by radical surgery. Additionally, another objective is to analyze the association between psychological distress and sociodemographic characteristics, medical history, and social support to produce a prediction model for the outcome measures.

Background: The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group is currently developing computerized adaptive testing measures for the Quality of Life Questionnaire Core-30 (QLQ-C30) scales. The work presented here describes the development of an EORTC item bank for emotional functioning (EF), which is one of the core domains of the QLQ-C30.