Purpose Patients, family members, and physicians participate in cancer care, but their
perspectives about what is helpful during cancer treatment have rarely been compared. The …

Purpose Despite improved survival for people with advanced cancer due to new medical
treatments, a growing group of long-term responders (LTRs) has to learn to live with …

Background People with advanced cancer often experience greater physical and
psychosocial morbidity compared to those with early disease. Limited research has focused …

Objective Efficiently addressing patient priorities and concerns remains a challenge in
oncology. Systematic operationalization of patient‐centered care (PCC) can support …

“Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes
possible to forget this one basic fact...” This simple, yet powerful statement by June …

Purpose This study is to evaluate healthcare needs, preferences, and expectations in
supportive cancer care as perceived by cancer survivors, family caregivers, and healthcare …

PURPOSE: Research eliciting patients' illness concerns has typically focused later in the
cancer continuum, rather than during cancer treatments. Family caregiver concerns are …

Background: Patients with advanced cancer do receive increasingly aggressive end-of-life
care (AOC), despite it does often not prolong survival time but entails decreased quality of …

Background: Evolving patient preferences as well as an expanding evidence base for
commonly used complementary and alternative medicine therapies for patients with cancer …

Purpose Cancer survivors experience barriers to primary healthcare (PHC) services. The
aim was to explore reactions to and opinions about perceived challenges associated with …