Publications by authors named "W Tuinier"
Purpose: We examined distress levels, problems, referral wish, and supportive health care use in a cross-sectional group of breast cancer survivors at two-time points with a 1-year time interval. Also, factors related to continuing elevated distress were explored.
Methods: Breast cancer survivors, 1-5 years after chemotherapy completion, filled in the Dutch Distress Thermometer/Problem List (DT/PL) and questions on background characteristics at study inclusion (T1).
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of home-based exercise counselling with feedback from a pedometer on fatigue in adult survivors of childhood cancer.
Patients: Adult survivors of childhood cancer were recruited from the long-term follow-up clinic of the University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands. A score of 70 mm on a visual analogue scale (scale, 0-100 mm) for fatigue was used as an inclusion criterion.
Background: Since 75% of children with cancer will become long-term survivors, late effects of treatment are an ever increasing issue for patients. Paediatric oncologists generally agree that cancer survivors should be followed up for the remainder of their lives, but they might not be the most suitable health-care providers to follow up survivors into late adulthood. We designed a 3-year study to assess whether shared-care by paediatric oncologists and family doctors in the long-term follow-up of survivors of childhood cancers is feasible, whether a shared-care model is compatible with collection of data needed for registration of late effects, and how a shared-care model is assessed by survivors and family doctors.
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