Question: What is the efficacy of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments for major depression and other depressive disorders in cancer populations? Perspectives: Depression occurs at an increased rate in medically ill populations, including p...
Objectives: Despite calls for better supportive care, patients and families still commonly bear significant responsibility for managing the physical and mental health and social challenges of being diagnosed with and treated for cancer. As such, ther...
The optimization of outcomes for pediatric cancer patients relies on the successful advancement of supportive care to ease the treatment burden and mitigate the long-term impacts of cancer therapy. Advancing pediatric supportive care requires researc...
Background: Due to ongoing disparity in the specialized care available to adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, this study aimed to understand the gaps and barriers to accessing care and preferences on types of solutions at a national Cana...
(1) Background: While inequalities in the prevalence of cancer, access to care, and survival have been well documented, less research has focused on inequalities in the uptake of supportive oncology care. Given its contribution to improving the quali...
The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) defines supportive care as “the prevention and management of the adverse effects of cancer and its treatment. This includes management of physical and psychological symptoms and...
Chronic kidney disease is marked by a reduced life expectancy and a high symptom burden. For those who reach end-stage renal disease, the prognosis is poor, and this combined with the growing prevalence of the disease necessitates supportive and pall...
Background: Oesophageal cancer patients have poor survival, and most are unfit for curative or systemic palliative treatment. This article aims to review the best supportive care for oesophageal cancer, focusing on the management of its most frequent...
Background: Despite strong clinical safety standards, many women continue to report negative or unsatisfactory childbirth experiences. Supportive care has gained attention as an important component of quality maternity services, yet evidence on its r...
Glioblastoma (GBM) is devastating both in prognosis and in patient impact. Differing from other solid tumors, GBM produces significant, often rapid, neurologic decline necessitating intense caregiving. This care usually falls to an intimate partner o...
Despite evidence that survivorship support programmes enhance physical and psychosocial wellbeing, cancer patients and survivors often do not use these supportive care services. This study investigated the utility of the Common Sense Model of Self-Re...
The global cancer disease burden is substantial, resulting in increased economic and clinical strain on our healthcare systems. A proposed solution is text-based communication, which can be used for cancer-supportive care. We conducted a systematic r...
Palliative radiotherapy (PRT) is known to be effective in relieving cancer related symptoms. However, many studies and clinical practice show several barriers hindering its use and worsening the quality of patient support during PRT. Various solution...
Objective: As cancer survival rates continue to increase, so will the demand for care from family and friends, particularly in more isolated settings. This study aims to examine the needs of cancer caregivers in regional and remote Australia. Methods...
The prompt introduction of supportive care for patients with cancer leads to a better quality of life, potential survival benefits, and improvements in treatment safety. Considering that patients’ needs vary, descriptive assessments could serve...
31 July 2021
Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancer treatment can cause physical and psychological distress and may result in unmet needs. The purposes of this study were to (1) examine the levels of gastrointestinal (GI) symptom distress, social support, and suppor...
Purpose: In the present work, we set out to comprehensively describe the unmet supportive care and information needs of lung cancer patients. Methods: This cross-sectional study used the Supportive Care Needs Survey Short Form 34 (34 items) and an in...
Background: Pancreatic cancer is a challenging malignancy with an aggressive biology and limited treatment options, contributing to low survival rates. Supportive and palliative care play a key role in improving the quality of life and psychological...
Nurses play a key role in providing integrated supportive care to cancer patients for their various needs. Efforts should be made to identify the competencies required for nurses providing integrated supportive care to cancer survivors, evaluate the...
As the global cancer burden rises, adults with advanced cancer face significant physical and psychosocial symptoms requiring early integration of palliative and supportive care. Nurses in oncology, emergency, and community settings are central to sym...
Innovative models of cancer care have emerged in response to advances in cancer treatment, expanding technologies that bring care closer to home and address COVID-19-related challenges and concerns about a shrinking healthcare workforce. Despite the...
This article reviews intravenous vitamin C (IV C) in cancer care and offers a rational approach to enable medical oncologists and integrative practitioners to safely provide IV C combined with oral vitamin C to patients. The use of IV C is a safe sup...
Leukemia represents a heterogeneous group of hematologic malignancies characterized by the dysregulated proliferation, differentiation, and survival of hematopoietic cells. Vitamin D (VD), a fat-soluble secosteroid hormone, is increasingly recognized...
High-grade gliomas (HGGs) are the most frequently diagnosed primary brain tumors. Even though it has been demonstrated that combined surgical therapy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy improve survival, HGGs still harbor a very poor prognosis and limite...
Background/Objectives: Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) face complex treatment decisions, symptom and treatment burden, uncertainty, and disruption to everyday life. Although previous qualitative research has identified important treatmen...
Background/Objectives: Cancer pain is prevalent across all stages of the disease, significantly impacting patients’ lives. Despite the availability of guidelines, its assessment and management remain suboptimal in many clinical settings. This s...
Objectives: This systematic review seeks to provide an in-depth overview of current research on tele-music interventions in supportive cancer care and identifies key areas where further research is warranted. Methods: A comprehensive search was condu...
Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a frequent, and often life-threatening, complication after an allogeneic, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT). It can appear in an acute or a chronic form and presents different grades of severity. P...
Black-identifying patients face many barriers to the receipt of equitable breast cancer care; however, little is currently known about the unique needs of this patient population, particularly in Canada. To address this gap, we identified and themati...
Caregivers providing care for their family members with oral cancer usually endure the caregiving burden in silence, which affects their quality of life and necessitates the need for supportive care. The aim of this study is to determine the relation...
Rising incidence of specific types of early-age onset cancers in adults aged 18–49 years has been reported in high-income countries. In this review, we summarise the epidemiology of early-onset cancers using exemplar data from a high-income UK...
Background: Evidence suggests the importance of cancer supportive care for adolescents and young adults (AYAs), and digital technology may provide tailored care that is flexible, affordable and accessible. However, AYAs’ experiences with these...
Background/Objectives: Patient satisfaction and supportive care are key quality indicators in certified Head and Neck Cancer Centers (HNCC). We assessed patient-reported experiences across diagnostic staging and surgical treatment pathways, focusing...
After discharge from neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), the parents of pre-term newborns have to provide developmentally supportive care (DSC) to their children; thus, educational support for parents is essential. This study aimed to explore the...
12 February 2024
The growing amount of evidence about the role of supportive care in enhancing cancer patients’ outcomes has made healthcare providers more sensitive to the need for support that they experience during cancer’s trajectory. However, the lac...
15 November 2023
Dengue fever (DF) can be complicated by hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). Steroid administration is markedly effective for this hematologic complication, and for other viral infections. We present a rare case of DF-associated HLH that improve...
The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between quality of life (QoL) and supportive care needs (SCNs) in cancer patients. It is difficult to relate SCNs to detriments in QoL since SCNs and QoL assessment tools generally comprise differ...
(1) Background: Cancer patients are experiencing psychological problems after diagnosis, such as emotional distress and social anxiety, which may increase their demands for emotional and supportive care. This study aimed to assess the influence of bo...
Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women in Palestine, where the need for supportive care frequently goes unmet. Therefore, this study aims to assess the supportive care services provided at the governmental hospitals in t...
(1) Background: Growing evidence indicates benefits through exercise programs in pediatric oncology throughout the whole cancer trajectory. This should include palliative care, too. This project analyzes the feasibility of a supervised exercise progr...
18 April 2025
Cancer is one of the leading causes of global morbidity and mortality and one of the most challenging global health conditions, impacting the lives of millions every year. The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) is not on track to achieve the sustaina...
Background: Cancer survivors are often underprepared for what to expect post-treatment, and there are knowledge gaps regarding cancer survivors’ supportive care needs in Jordan and neighboring Arab countries. This study aimed to identify gaps i...
Neutropenia and febrile neutropenia are common and potentially life-threating events associated with chemotherapy treatment in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). Neutropenia-related infectious events could be an issue both for direct clinical consequences and fo...
During the Ebola outbreak, mortality reduction was attributed to multiple improvements in supportive care delivered in Ebola treatment units (ETUs). We aimed to identify high-priority supportive care measures, as well as perceived barriers and facili...
Background: Family caregivers play a central role in supporting people with colorectal cancer (CRC) and often manage complex physical, emotional, and practical demands. However, evidence regarding their experiences and supportive care needs in Kazakh...
Purpose: This study aimed to develop a retrained large language model (LLM) tailored to the needs of HN cancer patients treated with radiotherapy, with emphasis on symptom management and survivorship care. Methods: A comprehensive external database w...
Background: It is well known that supportive care clinics are vital in medical oncology practice. This study aims to present a portrait of the supportive care clinic of a tertiary cancer center in a low-middle-income country. Methods: This study incl...
Background: Telenursing comprises a set of tools and interventions enabling nurses to provide remote care. This study aims to assess the impact of telenursing interventions on the supportive care needs of patients with melanoma and lung cancer who ar...
Psychosocial oncology is a discipline concerned with the social, psychological, emotional, spiritual, quality-of-life, and practical aspects of cancer for patients and families, with the aim of supporting whole-person care [...]
Dysgeusia is a clinically consequential, but still under-standardized, toxicity of cancer treatment. In the immunotherapy era, taste disturbances are increasingly relevant for patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors, chimeric antigen receptor...
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