Symptom Burden in Cancer: Assessment and Management
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 37
Special Issue Editors
Interests: development, evaluation and application of patient-reported outcome (PRO); pharmacoeconomics; cancer syndrome; survivorship; quality of life
Interests: Myelodysplastic syndromes; acute myeloid leukemia; immune thrombocytopenia; anemia; patient-reported outcomes; quality of life
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer and its treatment are accompanied by multiple symptoms that may significantly distress patients and impair their quality of life. These symptoms may delay successful treatment or lead to premature treatment termination. Cancer survivors are at risk of multiple severe and persistent symptoms. The control of disease-related and treatment-related symptoms is an integral component of cancer care. It is well established that optimal symptom management is based on adequate symptom assessment. The implementation of patient-reported outcomes to assess symptom burden is of great significance, and symptom burden surveillance should be performed and managed during cancer treatment. Strategies for assessing symptom burden and its management in patients with various types of cancer is a subject of ongoing investigation. In addition, the burden of symptoms in cancer on family members and family resilience are further focuses of research. Recently, patient empowerment in cancer care in building up patient–provider partnerships through shared decision making has also been highlighted.
This Special Issue covers areas such as strategies for the assessment of symptom burden and symptom management in cancer, optimizing cancer care for improved management of symptoms, the impact of symptom burden on patients with various types of cancers and their families, and patient-centered empowerment strategies for better managing cancer symptoms.
Prof. Dr. Sam M. Salek
Dr. Esther Natalie Oliva
Prof. Dr. Tatyana Ionova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- symptom burden
- patient-reported outcomes
- symptom assessment
- symptom management
- quality of life
