News tagged with cancer survivors
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Studies link depression, breast cancer outcomes
This year, more than 230,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and nearly 40,000 women will not survive their battle with cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. New research from the University of Missouri ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Social media has role in delivery of healthcare but patients should proceed with caution
Social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube can be powerful platforms to deliver and receive healthcare information, especially for patients and caregivers who are increasingly going online to connect and share experiences ...
Health
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Cancer survivorship research must look at quality of life: report
Assessing the quality of life experienced by cancer survivors is becoming increasingly important, say researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. Such an assessment has a number of important applications when doing ...
Cancer
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Probability model estimates proportion of women who survive breast cancer detected through screening
A model used to estimate breast cancer survival rates found that the probability that a woman with screen-detected breast cancer will avoid a breast cancer death because of screening mammography may be lower than previously ...
Cancer
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Advanced post-mastectomy breast reconstruction improves women's psychosocial and sexual well-being
After a mastectomy, women who undergo breast reconstruction with tissue from their own abdomen experience significant gains in psychological, social, and sexual wellbeing as soon as three weeks after surgery. That is one ...
Cancer
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Nurses boost well-being for cancer survivors
The Queensland University of Technology (QUT ) School of Nursing and Midwifery, in Brisbane, Australia, has designed a program to assist cancer survivors in self-managing their health and emotional concerns.
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Oct 14, 2011 |
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Almost half of cancer survivors have ill health in later years
Forty-five per cent of cancer survivors in Northern Ireland suffer from physical and mental health problems years after their treatment has finished, according to new research from Macmillan Cancer Support and Queen's University ...
Cancer
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Older cancer survivor population to increase substantially
Over the next decade, the population of cancer survivors over 65 years of age will increase by approximately 42 percent.
Cancer
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Cancer vaccine quest begins at Mayo Clinic
A few weeks ago, the Mayo Clinic made an intriguing announcement: One of its scientists had discovered a possible way to prevent ovarian and breast cancer with vaccines. And Mayo was ready to start testing them in people.
Cancer
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Regular mammograms prolong life in breast cancer survivors
Mammography done yearly or every two years to detect new or recurrent tumors after surgery appears to prolong the lives of breast cancer survivors, according to a large new evidence review.
Cancer
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Depression affected preventive health screening among Latina breast cancer survivors
Depression, in addition to other barriers, may prevent Latina breast cancer survivors from undergoing preventive health screening for colorectal and ovarian cancer, according to data presented at the Fourth AACR Conference ...
Cancer
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Depression and pain increase fatigue in breast cancer survivors
In Spain, 5-year survival following breast cancer diagnosis is more than 83%. Around 66% suffer fatigue following treatment. A Spanish research establishes the factors associated with tiredness in cancer survivors ...
Cancer
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Web tool aims to improve the workplace for breast cancer survivors
In a paper to be presented at the upcoming HFES 55th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, human factors/ergonomics researchers will describe WISE, a Web-based tool for breast cancer survivors designed to reduce work disabilities ...
Cancer
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Chemotherapy can impair speech
Patients who have received high doses of chemotherapy may find it harder to express themselves verbally, according to new research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Speech difficulties ...
Cancer
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Childhood cancer survivors in poor health at greater risk for unemployment in adulthood
Childhood cancer survivors with poor physical health and neurocognitive deficits are more likely to be unemployed or work part-time in adulthood, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a jour ...
Cancer
Aug 15, 2011 |
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