BACKGROUND Patients with incurable cancer face many physical and emotional stressors,
yet little is known about their coping strategies or the relationship between their coping …

Purpose Patients' understanding of their illness is key for making informed treatment
decisions, yet studies suggest an association between prognostic awareness and worse …

Over 2 million facial skin cancers occur globally each year. Facial skin cancer surgery can
leave scars that may alter appearance and impact psychosocial functioning. The objective of …

Introduction Despite the increasing incidence of melanoma little is known about patients'
emotional distress associated with this disease. Supplemented by the problem list (PL), the …

Purpose/Objectives: To provide a better understanding of the disease-specific quality-of-life
(QOL) concerns of patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC). Design: Cross …

Background Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) accounts for nearly a quarter of
non‐melanoma skin cancers. Studies reporting Quality of Life (QoL) in this group focus on …

Background: Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common malignancy
of the skin, often occurring in older patients and in the head and neck area (cSCCHN). Age …

Background Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and comprises various non-
melanoma skin cancer (NMCS) diagnoses and malignant melanoma (MM). It places a …

Background Melanoma is the fastest growing tumor of the skin, which disproportionately
affects younger and middle-aged adults. As melanomas are visible, recognizable, and …

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is important in the management of basal cell
carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Disease-specific questionnaires …