The Development and Feasibility Testing of the Nurse-Led Transitioning Adolescents Off Cancer Treatment (TACT) Intervention.

Aim: To develop and assess the feasibility of a nurse-led intervention aimed at improving the transition from cancer treatment to survivorship for adolescents by providing personalised information and psychosocial and self-management support.

Design: Intervention development through co-creation with adolescent patients with cancer, their parents and health care professionals, based on the MRC framework and qualitative feasibility testing.

Methods: The intervention development involved three steps: (a) identifying the problem through interviews with key stakeholders and by reviewing existing evidence on transition tools and practices; (b) designing the intervention through co-creation workshops with stakeholders and (c) assessing feasibility, acceptability and participants' experiences of the intervention through interviews with adolescents, parents, healthcare professionals and teachers.

Primary Cuff Repair Augmented With a Balloon Spacer in a Large and Massive Rotator Cuff Tear Series: A Technique and Short-term Outcome and Imaging Study.

Massive rotator cuff tears are a challenge for patients and surgeons. We explored the outcomes of patients with massive rotator cuff tears primarily treated with primary cuff repair augmented with a subacromial balloon spacer. The mean age of the patients was 64.

Profiles of Fatigue and Psychological Symptoms in Long-Term Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivors-The NOR-CAYACS Study.

Introduction: Long-term childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors (CAYACS) are at risk of fatigue and psychological problems. However, their interactions remain largely unexplored. Understanding how they cluster can inform treatment and person-centered follow-up care.

Physical activity behaviors and screen time in young childhood cancer survivors: the Physical Activity in Childhood Cancer Survivors Study.

Purpose: In childhood cancer survivors (CCS), high physical activity (PA) and low sedentary time may reduce risks of late-effects. PA behaviors and screen time, and how they relate to moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) in CCS, are largely unknown. We examined PA behaviors and screen time, and their cross-sectional associations with MVPA.

Experiences Using Nonpharmacological Interventions for Chronic Fatigue: A Focus Group Study of Long-Term Survivors of Young Adult Cancers With Fatigue.

Background: Cancer-related fatigue is a common and distressing late effect of cancer that can persist for decades after treatment completion. Although negatively affecting survivors' quality of life, few, if any, efficacious interventions for persistent, or chronic, fatigue exist.

Aims: To inform future interventions, we explored how long-term, young adult cancer survivors (YACSs) with chronic fatigue live with, and manage their fatigue over time, including their experiences with nonpharmacological interventions (NPIs) for chronic fatigue.

Adolescent Cancer Survivors and Their Parents' Experiences With the Transition Off Treatment to Survivorship: A Qualitative Interview Study.

Transitioning from active cancer treatment to survivorship represents a vulnerable yet underresearched phase for adolescents and their families. Knowledge of their support needs, the challenges they experience, and how they manage them are useful to inform tailored follow-up care. Thus, we aimed to explore their transition experiences.

Arthroscopy Technique: Repair of Musculotendinous Junction Rotator Cuff Tears in the Shoulder Using a Dynamic Convergence Suture Bridge Technique.

Musculotendinous junction (MTJ) rotator cuff tears in the shoulder are rare injuries in which the tendon fails medial to its tuberosity attachment. There is difficulty in striking a balance between restoring the length-tension relationship of the tendon while avoiding high suture tension at the repair site. In view of the rare incidences of these tears, there is a paucity of literature on their repair techniques.

The feasibility of a multidimensional intervention in lymphoma survivors with chronic fatigue.

Purpose: Chronic fatigue (CF) affects 25-30% of lymphoma survivors, but interventions designed to reduce fatigue are lacking. The main aim of this study was to test the feasibility of a multidimensional intervention study in lymphoma survivors with CF. Secondary aims were to describe individual changes in fatigue, quality of life (QoL) and physical performance from pre (T0) to post (T1) intervention.

What do we mean by "tailoring" of medical information during clinical interactions?

Although medical information is essential for all patients, information needs and information processing capacities vary between individual patients and over time and context, within patients. Therefore, it is often recommended to "tailor" medical information to individual patients during clinic visits. However, there is a lack of consensus on what "tailoring" in clinical interactions represents since the definitions provided in the literature thus far generally regard tailoring of written text, rather than in dialogue during face-to-face interactions.

"The post-it note just said leukemia" - Information exchange challenges of teachers and local stakeholders supporting young childhood cancer survivors at school - A qualitative study from the Physical Activity and Fitness in Childhood Cancer Survivors (PACCS) group.

Purpose: Explore teachers', school nurses', cancer coordinators' and other local stakeholders' experiences providing education and support for young childhood cancer survivors in the years after treatment.

Methods: We conducted four focus groups and three individual telephone interviews with 15 teachers, nine nurses and three other stakeholders, using inductive thematic analysis inspired by Braun & Clark. Nvivo v12 was used for data-management.

Correction: Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

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Prevalence and risk factors associated with low bone mineral density in Asian adolescents with anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa.

Objective: This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors for low bone mineral density (BMD) at diagnosis in Asian adolescent females with anorexia nervosa (AN) and atypical AN.

Method: We analyzed the BMD results for 213 patients between 10 and 18 years of age, with AN and atypical AN receiving care at a pediatric hospital in Singapore. We used linear regression analyses to determine if type of eating disorder, premorbid weight, and duration of amenorrhea were risk factors for low BMD.

How Do Physicians Frame Medical Information in Talks With Their Patients? An Inductive Microanalysis.

During medical consultations, physicians need to share a substantial amount of information with their patients. this information is framed can be crucial for patient understanding and outcomes, but little is known about the details of how physicians frame information in practice. Using an inductive microanalysis approach in the study of videotaped medical interactions, we aimed to identify the (i.

WITHDRAWN: If I say…teach-back.

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Physical Activity Among Adolescent Cancer Survivors: The PACCS Study.

Objectives: Physical activity (PA) may modify risks of late effects after cancer. We aimed to examine levels of PA and sedentary time (ST) in a large, international sample of adolescent childhood cancer survivors in relation to sociodemographic and cancer-related factors and compare levels of PA and ST to reference cohorts.

Methods: Survivors from any cancer diagnosis who had completed cancer treatment ≥1 year ago, aged 9 to 16 years, were eligible for the multicenter Physical Activity in Childhood Cancer Survivors study.

'The way you talk, do I have a choice?' Patient narratives of medication decision-making during hospitalization.

Objective: Based on the principle of the autonomy of the patient, shared decision-making (SDM) is the ideal approach in clinical encounters. In SDM, patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) share knowledge and power when faced with the task of making decisions. However, patients are often not involved in the decision-making process.

Sexual Problems as Late Effects: Awareness and Information Needs Among 1870 Long-term Norwegian Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivors (The NOR-CAYACS Study).

Treatment-related sexual problems are common, but understudied, among survivors of Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivors (CAYACS). We investigated awareness of, and information needs regarding, sexual problems as late effects in a nation-wide sample of long-term CAYACS. Five-year survivors were identified by the Cancer Registry of Norway, diagnosed between 1985 and 2009 with any childhood cancer (0-18 years of age, excluding central nervous system tumors), leukemia, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, or malignant melanoma (19-39 years of age).

Life after paediatric brain tumour; the perspectives of the survivors and their parents.

Aims: To explore how long-term and late effects of paediatric brain tumours influence the everyday lives of survivors at various ages and their parents.

Design: A qualitative interview study using reflexive thematic analysis.

Methods: We conducted individual interviews and focus groups with 14 paediatric brain tumour survivors aged 9-52 years and 16 parents, which were audiorecorded and transcribed.

Abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE): Two case reports and literature review.

Introduction And Importance: Endometriosis is one of the most frequent gynecologic disorders, clinically confirmed or suspected in one of nine women by the age of 44 years. Its location of occurrence can be classified into intra and extra pelvic. Abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE) is one of its rare location, with frequency of 0.

Fear of cancer recurrence eight years after early-stage breast cancer - results from a national survey.

Background: Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) in breast cancer survivors (BCSs) is common, associated with reduced quality of life and effective interventions exist. There are knowledge gaps concerning FCR among long-term, early-stage BCSs and its associations with other late effects. Within a national cohort, we explored these knowledge gaps, with the ultimate aim of improved care for BCSs experiencing long-term FCR.

Rotator cuff repair with an interposition polypropylene mesh: A biomechanical ovine study.

Background: Chronic large to massive rotator cuff tears are difficult to treat and re-tears are common even after surgical repair. We propose using a synthetic polypropylene mesh to increase the tensile strength of rotator cuff repairs. We hypothesize that using a polypropylene mesh to bridge the repair of large rotator cuff tears will increase the ultimate failure load of the repair.

Barriers and facilitators for smoking cessation in chronic smokers with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease enrolled in a randomized intervention trial: A qualitative study.

Objectives: Smoking is common in patients with cardiovascular disease. Despite strong recommendations for cessation and the existence of efficacious pharmacological and behavioral interventions, cessation rates remain low. Therefore, in this study, we explore perceived facilitators and barriers to smoking cessation in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease who have participated in a cessation intervention study.

Investigating survival, quality of life and cognition in PROton versus photon therapy for mutated diffuse grade 2 and 3 GLIOmas (PRO-GLIO): a randomised controlled trial in Norway and Sweden.

Introduction: The use of proton therapy increases globally despite a lack of randomised controlled trials demonstrating its efficacy and safety. Proton therapy enables sparing of non-neoplastic tissue from radiation. This is principally beneficial and holds promise of reduced long-term side effects.