Neoplasms - Psychology
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Factors affecting the delivery of family-centered care in pediatric oncology.

29 Nov 2009 BACKGROUND: The provision of family-centered care (FCC) emphasizes a partnership between parents and health-care providers so that families are involved in every aspect of services for their child. Our study examines factors related to parental ... Read more...

[Montérégie Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre: integrating nurse navigators in Montérégie's oncology teams: one aspect of implementing the Cancer Control Program--Part 1]

29 Nov 2009 The oncology patient navigator role was developed to ensure both continuity and consultation in the delivery of care to cancer patients and their families. In Québec, this role is filled by a nurse. This first article in a series of two, aims to ... Read more...

Supporting children of parents who are dying.

29 Nov 2009 Nurses, parents and other family members tend to feel ill equipped when talking to children about a parent's impending death. Adults often feel the need to protect children from the reality of a parent's imminent death. However, research indicates ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Neoplasms - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Factors affecting the delivery of family-centered care in pediatric oncology. 29 Nov 2009
• [Montérégie Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre: integrating nurse navigators in Montérégie's oncology teams: one aspect of implementing the Cancer Control Program--Part 1] 29 Nov 2009
• Supporting children of parents who are dying. 29 Nov 2009
• Cancer incidence in Israeli Jewish survivors of World War II. 24 Oct 2009
• Cancer risk from extreme stressors: lessons from European Jewish survivors of World War II. 24 Oct 2009
• [Narratives about cancer--the meeting with health care] 20 Oct 2009
• Screening for emotional distress in cancer patients: a systematic review of assessment instruments. 11 Oct 2009
• Return of a problem child. 29 Sep 2009
• [Pharmaceutical treatment of cancer-associated fatigue--a survey of a Cochrane review] 19 Sep 2009
• Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Cancer Survivorship Research Conference: Mapping the New Challenges, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 13 Sep 2009
• Family psychosocial risk, distress, and service utilization in pediatric cancer: predictive validity of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool. 13 Sep 2009
• Patterns of adaptation in patients living long term with advanced cancer. 13 Sep 2009
• Clinical practice guidelines for the psychosocial care of cancer survivors: current status and future prospects. 13 Sep 2009
• Intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences of protective buffering among cancer patients and caregivers. 13 Sep 2009
• Design and recruitment of the Chicago Healthy Living Study: a study of health behaviors in a diverse cohort of adult childhood cancer survivors. 13 Sep 2009
• Behaviors associated with ultraviolet radiation exposure in a cohort of adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 13 Sep 2009
• Quality of life in a prospective cohort of elderly women with and without cancer. 13 Sep 2009
• Introduction: charting the landscape of cancer survivors' health-related outcomes and care. 13 Sep 2009
• Parent-child communication patterns during the first year after a parent's cancer diagnosis: the effect on parents' functioning. 13 Sep 2009
• Prevalence, natural course, and risk factors of insomnia comorbid with cancer over a 2-month period. 6 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Neoplasms'

Definition: New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms.

Descriptor UI: D009369

Alternative terms: Neoplasms; Neoplasm; Tumors; Tumor; Benign Neoplasms; Neoplasms, Benign; Benign Neoplasm; Neoplasm, Benign; Cancer; Cancers;

Related Mesh Headings: Antibodies, Neoplasm; Antigens, Neoplasm; Antineoplastic Agents; Carcinogens; DNA, Neoplasm; Oncogenic Viruses; Precancerous Conditions; RNA, Neoplasm; Pleural Effusion, Malignant; Genes, Tumor Suppressor; Anticarcinogenic Agents;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; blood supply; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; secretion; surgery; therapy; ultrastructure; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: C04;

Online Note: pre-explosion = NEOPLASMS (PX)

History Note: /diagnosis was NEOPLASM DIAGNOSIS 1964-65; /etiology was NEOPLASM ETIOLOGY 1964-65; /immunology was NEOPLASM IMMUNOLOGY 1964-65; /radiotherapy was NEOPLASM RADIOTHERAPY 1964-65; /therapy was NEOPLASM THERAPY 1964-65; NEOPLASM STATISTICS was heading 1964-65; CARCINOGENESIS was heading 1977

Technical Notes: avoid: too general; prefer specifics; policy: Manual section 24; /chem ind permitted but consider also CARCINOGENS; /class: consider also NEOPLASM STAGING (see note there) but "grading" = /pathol; /etiol: consider also ONCOGENIC VIRUSES; /vet: Manual 24.6+ or TN 136; TN 135: MeSH terms for neoplasms classed by tissue; /drug ther: consider also ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS & its specifics; /genet: consider also GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR /immunol: consider also TUMOR ESCAPE; consider also ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM & ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; /microbiol: consider also ONCOGENIC VIRUSES; /nurs = the patient, ONCOLOGIC NURSING = the oncologic specialty; /prev: consider also ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; /radiother = the patient, RADIATION ONCOLOGY = the specialty; consider also BRACHYTHERAPY; /second = NEOPLASM METASTASIS but do not confuse with NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; familial: consider also NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; metastatic cancer of unknown origin: index under NEOPLASM METASTASIS; Tumor Key: TN Suppl