Cancer and aging

Article Abstract:

The Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College, a gerontology center in the United States and Cancer Care Inc., which offers emotional and financial assistance to cancer patients coordinated to provide mammography services for ethnic minority women. They employed a dual approach for the mammography outreach project: education and conduct of a workshop on the early detection of cancer. The collaboration between the two agencies enabled their staff to exchange new information that could prove useful for designing future programs.

Aged, Elderly, Mammography

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Comparing relaxation training and cognitive-behavioral group therapy for women with breast cancer

Article Abstract:

The effects of participation in the cognitive behavior and relaxation guided imagery groups as compared to a control group regarding psychological and physical symptoms and health locus of control perceptions is discussed. It was seen that cognitive behavior reduced external health locus of control perceptions better well as relaxation and guided imagery helped in reducing fatigue and improving sleep quality.

Psychological aspects, Analysis, Cancer patients, Guided imagery

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Self-help groups in Belgium: their place in the care network

Article Abstract:

Issues are discussed regarding the pronounced differences between the positive image of self-help groups in the academic literature and the personal views of breast cancer patients in such groups.

Belgium, Usage, Self-help groups, Self help groups

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