Optimizing Symptom Management for Cancer and Cancer Survivors
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 5712
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to World Health Organization, cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide, killing approximately 10 million of people in 2020. The top three most common sites of cancer in 2020 were the lung, colon and rectum and liver. Cancer and its treatment undoubtedly lead to a significant symptom burden for patients, and bring tremendous distress to their family members throughout the cancer journey, from the time of diagnosis to long-term survivorship. Symptom control and management is therefore an important topic in the field of oncology.
This Special Issue invites high-quality papers which have adopted various design formats, including qualitative approaches, randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, with an aim to identify a symptom profile and its associating factors plus appropriate screening tools for potential side effects, and to investigate the effectiveness and efficacy of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to alleviate and control symptoms in both adult and pediatric oncology patients.
Dr. Ka Yan Ho
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- symptom control
- symptom management
- pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention
- complementary and alternative medicine
- quality of life
- cancer
- cancer survivors
- translational care
- physical and psychosocial well-being