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Breast cancer

Educational material for social marketing and behaviours linked to early detection of breast cancer

The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of brochures used within the framework of social marketing on women's early detection behaviours (BSE, CBE and mammography). To the best of...

Suicide and women living with and beyond a breast cancer diagnosis

It was proposed to undertake a review of the literature on suicide in cancer patients or following a cancer diagnosis. The aim of the literature review was twofold:.

Exploring the psychological impacts of a gestational cancer diagnosis on women: a literature review

The ‘Population, Exposure, Outcome’ framework (Polit and Beck, 2014) was used to develop the research question. The ‘population’ was pregnant women, the ‘exposure’ was gestational cancer diagnosis and...

How are women supported in making decisions regarding fertility preservation after a breast cancer diagnosis?

The aim of this study was to look at how women are supported in their decision-making when faced with fertility-impacting treatment following a diagnosis of breast cancer. In order to answer this...

Changing practice: moving to a specialist nurse-led service for BRCA gene testing

Descriptive statistics, tests for normality and independent t-test statistical analyses were performed using Stata 16 software..

Pharmacotherapeutics of capecitabine and trastuzumab in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer

Breast cancer begins as a local disease but it can metastasise to the lymph glands and then to distant organs, with common metastatic sites being the lungs, liver and bones (Weigelt et al, 2005)....

Intravenous versus subcutaneous trastuzumab: an economic and patient perspective

Until December 2013, trastuzumab, licensed for the treatment of patients with Her2-positive early or metastatic breast cancer, was available as a powder for reconstitution before intravenous...

Quality of life and personal resilience in the first two years after breast cancer diagnosis: systematic integrative review

Systematic reviews of the psychosocial implications (Foster et al, 2009) and QoL for long-term survivors (over 5 years) of breast cancer (Mols et al, 2005) have been undertaken reporting good QoL but...

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