Adapting and avoiding coping strategies for women with ovarian cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges for people living with cancer, impacting not only physical health but psychological well-being. The psychological response affects the individual as well as the community and can persist long after the outbreak. We aim to assess coping strategies employed by women with ovarian cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the quality of life for women with ovarian cancer.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges for the oncology community. For people living with cancer, treatments are interrupted, surgeries cancelled, and regular oncology evaluations rescheduled. People with cancer and their physicians must balance plausible fears of coronavirus disease 2019 and cancer treatment with the consequences of delaying cancer care.

Ovarian cancer survivors' acceptance of treatment side effects evolves as goals of care change over the cancer continuum.

Objectives: Women with ovarian cancer can have long overall survival and goals of treatment change over time from cure to remission to stable disease. We sought to determine whether survivors' acceptance of treatment side effects also changes over the disease continuum.

Methods: Women with ovarian cancer completed an online survey focusing on survivors' goals and priorities.

A qualitative study of ovarian cancer survivors' perceptions of endpoints and goals of care.

Objectives: A survey of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance revealed a communication gap between physicians and survivors. This qualitative study explored the space between perceptions in hopes of better defining treatment endpoints meaningful to treating physicians and their patients.

Methods: A focus group of ovarian cancer survivors (n=22) was assembled via the survivor support network SHARE.