Background: A cancer diagnosis can impact patients' and caregivers' lives, posing different
challenging situations. In particular, breast cancer and prostate cancer are two types of …

Background Caregivers may play a fundamental role in the clinical pathway of cancer
patients. They provide emotional, informational, and functional support as well as practical …

Background Despite the important role that family caregivers play in providing emotional
and practical support to cancer patients, relatively little is known about the family caregiver's …

Objective Family caregivers are regularly involved in cancer consultations and treatment
decision-making (DM). Yet there is limited conceptual description of caregiver …

Objective To longitudinally examine caregiver-reported treatment decision-making roles and
to investigate the associations of these roles with caregiver burden, caregiving esteem …

Purpose A diagnosis of cancer is the start of a journey of distress and adjustment for both the
patient and his/her spouse. However, the dyadic phenomena are less conceptualised and …

Background To investigate how cancer patients, family caregiver, and their treating
oncologist view the risks and benefits of family involvement in cancer treatment decision …

Purpose Patient–caregiver dyadic interventions are when “interventions are offered to
cancer patients and their family caregivers together as the unit of care.” The purpose of the …

Background and aims Family caregivers play an important role in assisting their family
members with cancer, but their influence on the treatment decision‐making process has not …

The objectives of this meta-synthesis were to:(1) explore the experience of caregivers who
were caring for cancer patients, including their perceptions and responses to the situation; …