Relevance of the common-sense model for people living with a genetic predisposition for breast and ovarian cancer.

Objectives: BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants have been associated with an increased risk for breast, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate cancer as well as melanoma. The present research uses the Leventhal's common-sense model of self-regulation (CSM), a theoretical framework highlighting the role of mental representations on responses to a health-threat. We aim at understanding the personal meaning and representation of living with an hereditary breast and ovarian cancer predisposition.

Involuntary Autobiographical Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: A Double-Edged Way of Remembering the Past?

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by severe memory alterations, affecting especially memories of personal past events. Until now, autobiographical memory impairments have been characterized using formal memory assessments, requiring patients to strategically and deliberately recall past events. However, contrary to this highly cognitively demanding mode of memory recall, autobiographical memories frequently come to mind unexpectedly based on automatic associative processes.

Hope and relationship dynamics among couples faced with their child's cancer: A dyadic phenomenological interpretative analysis.

Purpose: The onset of paediatric cancer leads to changes in the functioning of the parental couple. The interactions and interdependence between partners affect their individual and dyadic adjustments. Hope can enable parents to cope with difficulties and alleviate their distress.

A Qualitative Study on the Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care in Oncology: How Health Care Professionals Can Adapt Their Practice?

The main objective of this study was to identify the facilitators of and barriers to the transition from pediatric to adult care for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer according to physicians and nurses working in oncology. The secondary objectives were (1) to explore the viewpoints of health care professionals (HCPs) on this transition and (2) to discover HCP's needs and the needs they perceive among AYAs and their parents. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 19 HCPs to discover their experiences with pediatric to adult care transitions.

[Bilateral panuveitis in Whipple's disease: Case report].

Whipple's disease is a rare disease linked to chronic infection with the intracellular gram-positive bacterium, Tropheryma whipplei. The clinical signs suggestive of this disease are the association of unexplained fever, lymphadenopathy, gastroenterological disorders (malabsorption) and inflammatory joint disorders (arthritis). However, isolated cardiological, neurological or ophthalmological forms have been described.