Chemotherapy Under the Perspective of the Person With Cancer: A Structural Analysis

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the contents and dimensions of social representations about chemotherapy by cancer patients in chemotherapy treatment. Method: qualitative study, based on the Theory of Social Representations. One hundred patients were interviewed with cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatment attended at a High Complexity Oncology Unit located in the north of the state of Paraná between August and December of 2016. To collect data, a socio-occupational and clinical characterization questionnaire was used, a form of free evocations and in-depth interviews. The analysis was performed with the softwares Microsoft Excel and Evocations. Results: the social representation of chemotherapy has in its central core the words healing, good and difficult, which are structured in order to justify the completion of chemotherapy - good treatment that leads to healing, although difficult. In addition, an attempt is made to define chemotherapy from its effectiveness, seeking, in healing, its conceptualization. The periphery presents elements related to the attitude, efficacy and side effects of chemotherapy, which reveal the concrete experience of daily life during treatment. Conclusion: the health team, especially the nursing team, should collaborate with the representational construction of patients with cancer in chemotherapy, offering information and rescuing knowledge gaps that allow their participation in the therapeutic process.

Suffering experiences of people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A meta‐ethnographic study

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Care transition from hospital to home: cancer patients’ perspective

“…CT is being considered an important strategy to contribute to continuity of care, reducing the number of hospital admissions, as well as impacting the decrease in readmissions caused by complications [4]. Furthermore, this strategy may reduce the cost of health services, contribute to more effective treatment of patients, the longevity of people with comorbidities and improve the quality of life for patients and their families [5][6][7][8]. The present database contains relevant information about cancer patients' discharge and CTs.…”

Manejo dos sintomas náuseas e vômitos induzidos pela quimioterapia: revisão integrativa

“…A quimioterapia torna-se o método mais utilizado, devido à alta incidência de cura e ao aumento da sobrevida (Faria & Fagundes, 2020). Dentre essas modalidades, a quimioterapia irritante ou vesicante, sendo utilizada como tratamento neoadjuvante, adjuvante ou paliativo, é reconhecida pelos efeitos colaterais que acometem os pacientes durante o tratamento, principalmente náuseas e vômitos (Wakiuchi et al, 2019).…”