Patient, cured, victim or survivor of urological cancer? A qualitative study.

Purpose: to describe the meanings that patients attribute to the term cancer survivor and to analyze the identities assumed by them according to their experience with the disease.

Methods: qualitative study with a narrative method, theoretical framework of the medical anthropology and identity concept. The study included 14 participants, men and women, diagnosed with urologic cancer.

Interaction between professionals and cancer survivors in the context of Brazilian and Canadian care.

Objective: analyze cancer survivors' reports about their communication with health professional team members and describe the similarities and differences in interactional patterns between Brazilian and Canadian health care contexts.

Method: This study adopted a qualitative health research approach to secondary analysis, using interpretive description as the methodology, allowing us to elaborate a new research question and look at the primary data from a different perspective. There were in total eighteen participants; all of them were adults and elderly diagnosed with urologic cancer.

Concept analysis of cancer survivorship and contributions to oncological nursing.

Aim: This study aims to analyse the concept of cancer survivorship using Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis model.

Background: The lack of a consensus definition as well as the confusion and debate concerning the definitions of "survivor" and "cancer survivorship" hinder an understanding of the intrinsic needs associated with the latter.

Design: Concept analysis.

Perceptions of donors and recipients regarding blood donation.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the perceptions of blood donors and recipients regarding the act of donating blood.

Method: This descriptive study with a survey design focuses on subjective and cultural aspects. Twenty donors and 20 recipients in the blood bank at the time of data collection participated in the study.