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Cancer as a Chronic Illness: Support Needs and Experiences by Florien Boele; Clare Harley; Simon Pini; Lucille Kenyon; Amrit Daffu-O'Reilly; Galina Velikova is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cancer as a Chronic Illness: Support Needs and Experiences about?
## Objectives Patients are living longer with active, advanced or metastatic disease that cannot be cured, but may be managed (ie, ‘chronic cancer’). The experiences and needs within this growing group are likely to be different from those shortly after diagnosis, on active curative treatment, or in the palliative or end-of-life phase, yet are poorly defined. We described chronic cancer patient experiences and support needs in a quantitative, multicentre cross-sectional study. ## Methods Patients from five district general hospitals in England completed the 75-item Chronic Cancer Experiences Questionnaire (CCEQ). Responses were described and linear regression analysis was performed to explore the associations between poorer patient experiences and clinical/sociodemographic variables. ## Results In total, 416 patients with prostate cancer (28%), breast cancer (24%), gynaecological cancer (19%), colorectal/gastrointestinal cancer (17%) and renal cancer (12%) completed the CCEQ (response rate 90%). Younger patients, those who had a longer interval between primary and advanced diagnosis and those not in a relationship, had worse experiences (R^2^=0.098, p<0.05). Cancer-specific symptom
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- Author
- Florien Boele; Clare Harley; Simon Pini; Lucille Kenyon; Amrit Daffu-O'Reilly; Galina Velikova
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)