Patients' Reactions to Completion Of Adjuvant Breast Cancer Therapy
作者:
SANDRA WARD,
GAIL VIERGUTZ,
DOUGLAS TORMEY,
JUDY DEMUTH,
ANN PAULEN,
期刊:
Nursing Research
(OVID Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 41,
issue 6
页码: 362-366
ISSN:0029-6562
年代: 1992
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Thirty-eight women with breast cancer were studied to determine the psychological distress they experienced at the completion of adjuvant treatment. Measures were completed at the start of adjuvant chemotherapy, one week after chemotherapy was completed, and following completion of radiotherapy. Approximately 30% of the women reported the termination of treatment was upsetting. For the group as a whole, depression scores decreased significantly from the first to the last measurement. Those who were most upset by termination of treatment had been more depressed since the onset of treatment, tended to view their illness as chronic rather than acute, and had more side effects during their last cycle of chemotherapy. Some women stated they were upset by the termination of treatment perse, but many other problems were reported including side effects that had continued after treatment ended.
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