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Title: | A step forward in addressing cancer survivorship in the Asia-Pacific region | Authors: | Chan, RJ Chan, A Yates, P Molassiotis, A |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Source: | BMC medicine, 2017, v. 15, 17, p. 1-3 | Abstract: | Cancer survivorship is being increasingly recognized as an important component of cancer care. This commentary reviews the key findings reported in the recent BMC Medicine publication of the ACTION study, which focuses on the health-related quality of life and psychological distress in 5249 cancer survivors in eight low- and middle-income countries in Southeast Asia. The study identified that more than one-third of survivors experience at least mild levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and that poorer outcomes in quality of life, anxiety, and depressive symptoms are linked to a number of clinical and demographic factors. Such data provides an important foundation to inform cancer policy and service planning in Asia. Future research efforts are required to further understand the needs of cancer survivors in this region and determine interventions to improve outcomes for this population. Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0768-2. | Keywords: | Asia Asia-Pacific region Cancer policy Cancer survivorship Low- and middle-income countries Service planning |
Publisher: | BioMed Central | Journal: | BMC medicine | EISSN: | 1741-7015 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12916-017-0796-6 | Rights: | © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. The following publication Chan, R. J., Chan, A., Yates, P., & Molassiotis, A. (2017). A step forward in addressing cancer survivorship in the Asia-Pacific region. BMC Medicine, 15, 17, 1-3 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0796-6 |
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