Perspectives of Cancer Survivors with Low Income: A Content Analysis Exploring Concerns, Positive Experiences, and Suggestions for Improvement in Survivorship Care.

The number of cancer survivors in Canada has reached 1.5 million and is expected to grow. It is important to understand cancer survivors' perspectives about the challenges they face after treatment is completed.

Cancer Survivors Living in Rural Settings: A Qualitative Exploration of Concerns, Positive Experiences and Suggestions for Improvements in Survivorship Care.

In Canada, the number of cancer survivors continues to increase. It is important to understand what continues to present difficulties after the completion of treatment from their perspectives. Various factors may present barriers to accessing help for the challenges they experience following treatment.

Relationship between income and concerns about physical changes and help-seeking by older adult cancer survivors: a secondary analysis.

Objective: Globally, the number of older adults surviving cancer is anticipated to grow rapidly over the next decades. Cancer and its treatment can leave survivors with a myriad of challenges including physical changes which impact independence and quality of life. This project explored the relationship of income level with concerns and help-seeking for physical changes following treatment in older Canadian survivors of cancer.

Challenges of Survivorship for Older Adults Diagnosed with Cancer.

Purpose Of Review: The purpose of this brief review is to highlight significant recent developments in survivorship research and care of older adults following cancer treatment. The aim is to provide insight into care and support needs of older adults during cancer survivorship as well as directions for future research.

Recent Findings: The numbers of older adult cancer survivors are increasing globally.

Exploring the relationships between income and emotional/practical concerns and help-seeking by older adult cancer survivors: A secondary analysis.

Purpose: The number of older cancer survivors is growing rapidly and expected to double through the next decade. Survivors can face challenges from treatment as well as other co-morbid conditions which may influence quality of living and generate distress. Understanding more about factors influencing whether older cancer survivors receive the help they desire is important for cancer program planning.

Relationships between Canadian adult cancer survivors' annual household income and emotional/practical concerns, help-seeking and unmet needs.

The objective of this study was to explore the relationship among income and emotional/practical concerns, help-seeking and unmet needs for cancer survivors aged 18 to 64 years one to three years after treatment. A cross-sectional survey was mailed in 2016 to 40,790 survivors randomly selected from 10 Canadian provincial cancer registries. Thirty-three percent responded.

Physical, emotional, and practical concerns, help-seeking and unmet needs of rural and urban dwelling adult cancer survivors.

Purpose: This study explores the influence of residency location on the experiences of cancer survivors. The influence of where individuals live during cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment has been described in various countries. However, understanding the context of residency on experiences during survivorship has received less attention.

Cancer survivors 75 years and older: physical, emotional and practical needs.

Objectives: To describe physical, emotional and practical concerns and access to help of Canadian cancer survivors aged 75+ years following treatment.

Methods: A survey was designed to identify concerns and access to help across three supportive care domains for cancer survivors 1-3 years post-treatment. Random samples were drawn from 10 provincial cancer registries.

Positive Cancer Experiences: Perspectives From Cancer Survivors.

The purpose was to review the perspectives of cancer survivors about what they perceive constitutes positive cancer experiences. A national survey was conducted in collaboration with 10 Canadian provinces to identify experiences and unmet needs for cancer survivors between 1 and 3 years of posttreatment. The survey included open-ended questions designed to allow the respondents to add topics and details of importance.

Exploring the impact of physical, emotional, and practical changes following treatment on the daily lives of cancer survivors.

Objective: To understand the impact of changes following treatment on daily lives of cancer survivors.

Methods: A national survey was conducted with cancer survivors about experiences with follow-up care. The survey included open-ended questions about changes in daily lives following treatment.

Main challenges in survivorship transitions: Perspectives of older adults with cancer.

Objectives: To describe main challenges experienced by older adults (75+ years) following primary cancer treatment as a basis for development of age-appropriate survivorship care.

Material And Methods: A national survey was conducted across ten Canadian provinces to identify experiences with follow-up for cancer survivors one to three years post-treatment. The survey included open-ended questions for respondents to add details that offered deeper insight into their experiences.

Improving survivorship care: Perspectives of cancer survivors 75 years and older.

Purpose: This work describes perspectives of older adult cancer survivors about improvements that should be considered during the early period of survivorship. Findings will be useful in program development of age-appropriate services following completion of cancer treatment for older adults.

Methods: A national survey was conducted across ten Canadian provinces to understand follow-up experiences of cancer survivors one to three years post-treatment.

Exploring the reasons cancer survivors do not seek help for their concerns: a descriptive content analysis.

Purpose: To understand reasons why adult cancer survivors do not seek assistance as they transition from the end of cancer treatment to follow-up care. Understanding these reasons should inform survivorship care, help reduce the burden of suffering and increase quality of life for survivors.

Methods: A national survey was conducted in collaboration with ten Canadian provinces to identify unmet needs and experiences with follow-up for cancer survivors between one and 3 years post-treatment.

Adolescent and Young Adult Perspectives on Challenges and Improvements to Cancer Survivorship Care: How Are We Doing?

The purpose was to review main challenges experienced by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors (18-34 years) during transition to survivorship and their suggestions regarding improvements needed in care. A national survey was conducted to identify experiences with follow-up care 1-3 years after cancer treatment. The survey included open-ended questions for respondents to add topics of importance and details for deeper insight.

Cancer survivor's perspectives on the major challenge in the transition to survivorship.

Objectives: To understand cancer survivors' perspectives regarding the major challenge in transitioning from cancer treatment to follow-up care. Identification of major issues should inform survivorship care and help reduce suffering.

Methods: A national survey was conducted to identify experiences with follow-up for cancer survivors one to three years post-treatment.

Returning to work after cancer: Survivors', caregivers', and employers' perspectives.

Objective: The Return to Work Initiative was launched to build a comprehensive understanding of issues, needs, current resources, and available supports for Canadian cancer survivors returning to work as the basis for developing a national action plan.

Methods: This Initiative drew on perspectives of stakeholders through a survey and consultations with cancer survivors and caregivers to learn about challenges regarding return to work and interviews and focus groups with workplace representatives and employers to determine issues encountered in the workplace. Common perspectives across stakeholder groups were identified.

Toward the development of a comprehensive cancer experience measurement framework.

A diagnosis of cancer and its treatment often have a profound impact on an individual's health-related quality of life-affecting physical, psychological, social, occupational, and financial domains. Person-centered care (PCC)-defined as a respectful, responsive, and tailored approach that meets patients' needs, values, and preferences-is becoming an integral part of comprehensive cancer care. The implementation of PCC into clinical practice provides benefits such as improvement in the quality of patient care, enhanced health-related outcomes, and significantly higher satisfaction with care.

Reflections on the implementation of screening for distress (sixth vital sign) in Canada: key lessons learned.

Background: Accreditation bodies in the USA, the UK, and Europe have mandated that jurisdictions regularly screen patients for distress. While these requirements have been in place for some time, recent reports suggest that facilities still struggle to overcome implementation barriers. In Canada, a Screening for Distress (the sixth vital sign) Initiative was implemented in eight cancer treatment facilities in seven provinces.

Breast cancer information dissemination strategies--finding out what works.

This study aimed to identify the best strategies for dissemination of information about breast cancer In November 2004, 28 breast cancer survivors were interviewed. Three themes emerged from these discussions: the shock of diagnosis; the onus being on the patient to search for information; and the different types of information that breast cancer survivors want. To learn multiple viewpoints, 12 focus groups were held with breast cancer survivors (n = 127) and three focus groups were conducted with information providers (n = 25) in the spring of 2005.