Background Patients with chronic diseases commonly report fears of illness or symptoms
recurring or worsening. These fears have been addressed from an illness-specific …

Objective Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is a common existential concern and source of
distress among adults with a cancer history. Multiple randomized controlled trials (RCTs) …

Background Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), anxiety, and depression are common
psychological disturbances that frequently occur together among cancer patients. This study …

A severe life threatening illness can challenge fundamental expectations about security,
interrelatedness with others, justness, controllability, certainty, and hope for a long and …

Acceptance of cancer has long been recognized as playing a critical role in psychological
adjustment to the illness, but its associations with distress outcomes have not been …

Objective Without an agreed‐upon set of characteristics that differentiate clinical from
nonclinical levels of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), it is difficult to ensure that FCR severity …

Fear of progression (or fear of recurrence) is an appropriate, adequate response to the real
threat of cancer. However, elevated levels of fear of progression can become dysfunctional …

Background Although fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) or disease progression is among the
most endorsed unmet needs and concerns of cancer survivors, research on the course of …

Despite a rapidly growing research interest in fear of cancer recurrence, lack of consensus
on definition and measurement including clinical fear of cancer recurrence, sparse model …

Purpose Although fear of recurrence (FCR) is common among cancer survivors, it remains
unclear what factors predict initial levels (eg, prior to surgery) or changes in FCR in the post …