Knowledge, ignorance and priorities for research in key areas of cancer survivorship: findings from a scoping review.

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BACKGROUND: Patients who have completed initial cancer treatment (cancer survivors) have been relatively neglected. We need data to help us better understand the needs of this group and to underpin evidence-based service development. METHODS: Scoping reviews of research published in the last two decades focussing on the problems faced by cancer survivors, and the effectiveness of interventions for these problems were undertaken. The aim was to identify what we know, what we do not know and o...

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Authors: Richardson, A; Addington-Hall, J; Amir, Z; Foster, C; Stark, D

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: British journal of cancer
• Volume: 105 Suppl 1
• Issue: SUPPL. 1
• Pages: S82-S94
• Publication date: 2011-11-01
• DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.425
• EISSN: 1532-1827
• ISSN: 0007-0920
• Language: English
• Keywords: Quality of Health Care; Survivors; Knowledge; Biomedical Research; Humans; Neoplasms