Citation

Uchida M, Akechi T. Current Breast Cancer Reports 2015; 7(3): 111-116.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015)

DOI

10.1007/s12609-015-0188-x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most frequently occurring cancer among women and ranks as the fifth cause of death from cancer. Therefore, advanced breast cancer patients experience much distress due to the decline of their health, ongoing medical treatments, uncertainty about their future, and many other problematic physical symptoms, as well as the difficulty in maintaining hope. In spite of these difficulties, little is known about how patients cope with the effects of advanced cancer. Furthermore, though advanced breast cancer has serious detrimental effects on the quality of life of patients, there is limited knowledge about which interventions help to cope with the disease. The aim of this study is to investigate (1) how patients cope with advanced breast cancer, (2) what is the associated factor for coping, (3) coping as a moderator and mediator, and (4) psychological intervention to assist advanced breast cancer patients to cope. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Language: en

Keywords

human; suicide; Review; quality of life; Intervention; Coping; wellbeing; posttraumatic stress disorder; risk factor; hopelessness; questionnaire; distress syndrome; patient care; coping behavior; breast cancer; intervention study; problem solving; cancer patient; follow up; cross-sectional study; cancer recurrence; cancer staging; Adjustment; outcome assessment; advanced cancer; Short Form 36; Coping Strategy Questionnaire; Associated factors; depression assessment; Advanced breast cancer; Brief COPE; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; Mental Adjustment of Cancer Scale; Mini-MAC; Ways of Coping Questionnaire