Transdisciplinary Holistic Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
A special issue of Current Oncology (ISSN 1718-7729). This special issue belongs to the section "Oncology Nursing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Rehabilitation Services, Holy Cross Site, 2202 2nd Street SW, Calgary, AB T2S 3C3, Canada
Interests: psychosocial oncology; advanced cancer; palliative care
2. Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino, via Santena 5 bis, 10126 Turin, Italy
Interests: communication; nursing home; palliative care; dementia care; family carers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For this Special Issue of Current Oncology, we are inviting papers from transdisciplinary clinical research teams who address the psychosocial and relational aspects of care for people with cancer at all stages, including advanced cancer, and their primary caregivers. Transdisciplinary has also been termed multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary, and this Special Issue considers how collaborative healthcare teams utilize the unique knowledge of each discipline to provide care. Topics may include consideration of the intersectional identities of individuals and their families, psychosocial interventions and perspectives, education for communication and psychosocial oncology care, as well as existential considerations and health humanities as applied to psychosocial oncology. Additionally, we are keen to ensure that patient populations represent the trajectory of psychosocial care for cancer at all stages, included during palliative care. This call is inclusive of all regions worldwide, with particular interest being placed on manuscripts from authors from low- and middle-income countries, multi-country studies and single sites. We maintain a pluralistic perspective on scholarship at Current Oncology and will consider various forms of research and reviews, including schematics and narratives, methodology papers, op-eds and commentaries.
Dr. Janet Margaret De Groot
Dr. Silvia Gonella
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Current Oncology is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- multidisciplinary
- cultural
- precision psychosocial oncology
- healthcare provider communication
- healthcare provider-patient relationships
- patients-primary caregiver relationships
- palliative care
- advanced cancer
- intersectional identities
