Finnish Palliative Care Nurses' and Physicians' Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Care Related to Their Attitudes toward End-of-Life Care.

Background: Spiritual care constitutes an indispensable aspect of palliative care (PC). Health care professionals encounter challenges when addressing spiritual care at the end of life. Developing appropriate attitudes toward end-of-life care can facilitate the acquisition of competencies needed for effective delivery of spiritual care.

The Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life (SoMe) questionnaire in Finnish: Sociodemographic findings of meaningfulness and crisis of meaning in the Finnish context.

Background: Psychological research about meaningfulness is concerned with a subjective sense of meaning of one's own life, that is, meaning in life. Empirical research in this field is attracting interest, as meaning in life has wide-ranging positive implications for mental health and well-being.

Aim: The aim of this article is to test the validity of the Finnish translation of the Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life (SoMe) questionnaire.

Spiritual well-being correlates with quality of life of both cancer and non-cancer patients in palliative care - further validation of EORTC QLQ-SWB32 in Finnish.

Background: The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) has developed the Spiritual Well-being Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-SWB32), a measure of spiritual well-being validated with people receiving palliative care for cancer, although its usefulness is not restricted to that population. We aimed to translate and validate this tool in Finnish and to study the relationship between spiritual well-being (SWB) and quality of life (QOL).

Methods: A Finnish translation was produced according to the guidelines of EORTC and included forward- and back-translations.

Maximal surgical effort increases the risk of postoperative complications in the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer.

Introduction: Surgery is the cornerstone of the treatment for advanced ovarian cancer. Reaching complete cytoreduction resulting in no gross residual disease often requires complex surgery. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of increased surgical radicality on the risk of complications in the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer.

Improved survival after implementation of ultra-radical surgery in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: Results from a tertiary referral center.

Objective: To compare survival rates of surgically treated advanced epithelial ovarian cancer patients before and after a programmatic change in surgical approach from standard surgery towards ultra-radical surgery.

Methods: 247 patients with FIGO stage IIIB-IV ovarian, tubal, and primary peritoneal carcinoma were operated during 2013-2019 either by primary or interval cytoreduction in Tampere University Hospital, Finland. Group 1 (n = 122) patients were operated during 2013 and February 2016.