More mammograms for New Brunwick Feb. 13, 2012 The Sussex Health Centre has a new digital mammography service available to women in Kings County. The unit is expected to provide 1,500 mammographies each year.Link.
Hot man app reminds women to do breast cancer exams "With busy lives, women often forget to do self exams for breast cancer. Well, what if a handsome fellow pops up occasionally to remind them? That's the basic idea behind Your Man Reminder, a new smartphone app coming next month from Canadian charity Rethink Breast Cancer to mark October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness month." Los Angeles Times, Sept. 22. Link.
Breast cancer
Needs
assessment
Psychosocial problems and needs of
posttreatment patients with breast cancer and their
relatives European Journal of
Oncology Nursing, Volume 15, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 260-266
“The patients reported needing help with psychological and
sexual issues. They suffered from treatment-related symptoms. More
treatment-related symptoms and depression were related to the patients’ needs
for supportive care. Their relatives’ needs primarily concerned access to
information and communication with health care professionals. Relatives had
higher levels of anxiety (25.0% vs. 22.2%), depression (12.5% vs. 8.3%) and
distress (40% vs. 34%) than patients. Higher levels of depression, younger age
and having a disease themselves were associated with relatives’ need for help.”
- excerpt
Nurse-led telephone follow-up and an educational group
programme after breast cancer treatment:
Results of a 2 × 2 randomised controlled trial European Journal of
Cancer
Volume 47, Issue 7, May 2011, Pages 1027-1036
“To investigate whether frequent hospital follow-up in the
first year after breast cancer
treatment might partly be replaced by nurse-led telephone follow-up without
deteriorating health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and whether a short
educational group programme (EGP) would enhance HRQoL…Replacement of most
hospital follow-up visits in the first year after breast cancer
treatment by nurse-led telephone follow-up does not impede patient outcomes…An
EGP does not unequivocally affect positive HRQoL outcomes.”
Online Interventions
Online health consultation: Examining uses of an interactive
cancer communication tool by low-income women with
breast cancer International
Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 80, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 518-528
“Patients [who] perceived less participation in or less
control over their care seek more use…Through using the service, patients feel
more involved and empowered.”
Exercise
Design and implementation of the Exercise for Health trial —
A pragmatic exercise intervention for women with breast cancer Contemporary
Clinical Trials, Volume 32, Issue 4, July 2011, Pages 577-585 “Participation in both intervention
arms during and following treatment for breast cancer was feasible and acceptable to women. Future work,
designed to inform translation into practice, will evaluate the quality of
life, clinical, psychosocial and
behavioural outcomes associated with each mode of delivery.” – excerpt
Survivorship
Overview of long term care of breast cancer
survivors Maturitas, Volume
69, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 106-112 “The
review also emphasises the need for survivorship care to include optimisation
of general health, including psychosocial and
sexual health, bone health and the evaluation of lifestyle-related risk factors
and genetic factors.” – excerpt
Physical Activity and Survival in Postmenopausal Women with Breast Cancer: Results from the Women's Health Initiative Cancer Prev Res April 2011 4:522-529
Cochrane systematic review:Clonidine, SSRIs, SNRIs and gabapentin reduce hot flushes in women with a history of breast cancer; relaxation therapy may have a mild effect in the short term Evid Based Nurs 2011; Published Online 9 March 2011
