Publications by authors named "J C Batten"
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- The study aimed to analyze the health-related quality of life in women with metastatic breast cancer, focusing on factors influencing their experience over the last decade.
- An integrative review was conducted, screening 7,316 articles and selecting 25 studies that primarily involved non-Hispanic white women from the U.S. and Europe, using various assessment tools.
- Key findings indicated that physical and psychological symptoms significantly impact quality of life, highlighting the need for better symptom management and more diverse research to understand the effects of new therapies.
Treatment-oriented language is used by physicians to convey to patients that treatment is available for their cancer (eg, "our usual treatment for this is…," "we can treat this," "your cancer is still treatable"). For patients who have incurable cancer, especially for patients with a poor prognosis or who are at the end of life, it is important to understand how physicians conceptualize and use this "everyday" clinical language. We conducted a qualitative interview study with a multidisciplinary group of physicians (n = 30) who may care for patients with cancer at different points in their clinical course, from diagnosis to end of life.
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