Quality of Life in Cancer Rehabilitation
A topical collection in Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This collection belongs to the section "Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life".
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Interests: cancer rehabilitation; supportive care of cancer; outcome research; psycho-oncology
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Interests: side effects management; supportive care and cancer rehabilitation; prehabilitation; exercise
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Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many cancer survivors suffer from cancer-related symptoms, or adverse effects of surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy. These impairments include fatigue, pain, decreased muscular strength and endurance, lymphedema, weight loss, gastrointestinal symptoms, cognitive deficits, and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. Thus, activities and participation can become permanently impaired. Some patients cannot return to work after cancer treatment or become dependent on care. Furthermore, psychological distress is common among cancer survivors, mainly depression and fear of cancer progression.
Cancer rehabilitation is aimed at improving cancer survivors’ quality of life by alleviation of these symptoms. It should also improve coping with cancer and help to develop strategies for resilience. To this end, physical therapies, exercise interventions, psycho-educative and emotionally supportive treatment modalities, and art and expression are combined in a multidisciplinary fashion. Other interventions include educational lectures on nutrition and lifestyle interventions for reduction of risk-factors such as smoking.
Rehabilitation can be performed as an inpatient or outpatient measure. In the Topical Collection, “Quality of Life in Cancer Rehabilitation”, an overview on current rehabilitative strategies is provided. Recent research on the efficacy of rehabilitation for sustained improvement of health-related quality of life is reported.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Licht
Prof. Dr. Richard Crevenna
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- cancer-related symptoms
- cancer rehabilitation
- physical therapy
- medical psycho-oncology
- depression
- anxiety
- fatigue
- patient-reported outcomes