Long-Term Survival of Women with Breast Cancer. Overview Supportive Care Needs Assessment Instruments

Abstract

The supportive care needs of breast cancer women during long-term survivorship are slightly explored, comparing to antineoplasmatic treatment period supportive care needs. This is probably due to the subjective nature of the concept examined. Approximately every scientific team worked on the study of supportive care needs on two or three different dimensions. More frequently examined are Physical and Psychological Care Needs. Gap is observed in exploring the social/economical and spiritual supportive care needs of women with breast cancer survivors as well as practical needs.

Dietary Behavior and Its Association with Nutrition Literacy and Dietary Attitude Among Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Chemotherapy: A Multicenter Survey of Hospitals in China

“…Our study demonstrated that participants’ nutrition literacy and dietary attitudes may positively influence their dietary behaviors while on inpatient chemotherapy, which was consistent with another study that demonstrated that patients had a higher level of need for supportive care during treatment compared with long-term survivorship. 47 One reason for this could be that patients suffer from more severe side effects during chemotherapy, which leads to a poor nutritional status, 48 so they have a strong demand for nutrition knowledge and think highly of the effect of diet, further prompting patients to create coping strategies to eat well. The positive effects of patients’ nutrition literacy and dietary attitudes on dietary behaviors suggest that health professionals should emphasize breast cancer patients’ nutrition literacy and dietary attitudes during chemotherapy as well as during survivorship after the end of treatments, and education about dietary behavior improvement can be designed and applied to promote patients’ nutrition literacy and dietary attitude.…”

Soins de soutien au Nouveau-Brunswick (Canada) : analyse de l’environnement

“…Les soins de soutien visent à améliorer la qualité de vie à toutes les étapes de la maladie, notamment en venant aussi en aide à la famille et aux proches aidants (Butow et al, 2012;Fincham et al, 2005;Klastersky, 2016;Stiefel et Guex, 1996). Les cours de nutrition, les programmes d'éducation, les groupes de soutien, le counseling, le conditionnement physique et la réadaptation en sont quelques exemples (Fitch, 1994(Fitch, , 2008Harrison et al, 2009;Ktistaki et al, 2017;Olver et al, 2020). Ces services, parfois bénévoles, proviennent d'une variété d'organismes des secteurs publics, privés et communautaires (Fitch, 2008).…”

Biofeedback-Based Proprioceptive Training to Improve Functional Prerequisites of Dragon Boating in Breast Cancer Survivors

“…In order to counteract and prevent permanent psychophysical dysfunctions, a holistic approach and a tailored global management are needed and recommended for this target population [12,31,32]. Great variation is detected amongst oncological subjects due to individual factors such as age, gender, cancer subtype, disease stage, and prediagnosis health status and functional capacity.…”