Scanxiety and Fear of Recurrence in Young Adult Female Breast and Gynaecological Cancer Survivors: Investigating Shared Mechanisms.

Background: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) females are vulnerable to psychological sequelae following cancer diagnosis and treatment. Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is well-documented in cancer survivors, however AYA survivors of breast and gynaecological cancers are less well-studied. Moreover, little is known about scan-related fears and anxiety ('scanxiety') in survivors of any age group.

NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Survivorship, Version 2.2024.

The NCCN Guidelines for Survivorship include recommendations for screening, evaluation, and treatment of psychosocial and physical problems resulting from adult-onset cancer and its treatment. They also include recommendations to promote healthy behaviors and immunizations in survivors and provide a framework for care coordination. These NCCN Guidelines Insights summarize the panel's current recommendations regarding sexual health and fertility.

"Treatable not curable": trade-offs in the use of treatment-oriented language with patients who have incurable cancer.

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.

Financial Difficulty Over Time in Young Adults With Breast Cancer.

Importance: Young adults aged 18 to 39 years represent the minority of breast cancer diagnoses but are particularly vulnerable to financial hardship. Factors contributing to sustained financial hardship are unknown.

Objectives: To identify financial hardship patterns over time and characterize factors associated with discrete trajectories; it was hypothesized that treatment-related arm morbidity, a key source of expense, would be associated with long-term financial difficulty.