Objectives Cancer is a frequent illness and a traumatic experience for both patients and their
families. This systematic review aims to analyse studies that examine socio-demographic …

Background Life-threatening diseases have a negative impact on emotional well-being and
psychosocial functioning. This study aimed to assess the relationship between the level of …

Introduction: Each year, around 16,500 women in Poland are diagnosed with breast cancer,
the second most common cause of death in women. In Poland, nearly 70,000 women live …

Background Cancer seems to have an independent adverse prognostic effect on COVID-19-
related mortality, but uncertainty exists regarding its effect across different patient subgroups …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of cognitive adjustment to cancer,
assessed on the mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer (mini-MAC) scale, on perception of …

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and carries a greater degree of stigma.
Lung cancer stigma contributes to social isolation and increases loneliness, which has an …

Objective The mental adjustment to a breast cancer diagnosis is traumatic and stressful, with
wide‐ranging differences in the responses observed in Indian women. We investigated the …

Context Spiritual care is integral to quality palliative care. Although chaplains are uniquely
trained to provide spiritual care, studies evaluating chaplains' work in palliative care are …

Background. Patients adjust to cancer in a continuous process that follows the course of the
disease. Previous research has considered several illness‐related variables and …

PURPOSE: When deliberating palliative cancer treatment, insight into patients' attitudes
toward striving for quality of life (QL) and length of life (LL) may facilitate goal-concordant …