Understanding what cancer patients need to know and from whom they receive information
during the course of care is essential to ensuring quality care. We reviewed 112 articles …

Purpose The aim of this study was to describe what is known about levels of morbidity and
the experience and needs of people with cancer, and their informal caregivers, living in rural …

Background: Many cancer survivors experience ongoing morbidity over the survivorship
continuum and their supportive care needs have yet to be comprehensively assessed …

Screening for distress in cancer patients is recommended by the National Comprehensive
Cancer Network, and a Distress Thermometer has previously been developed and …

Purpose This review aimed to examine (a) trends in the number of publications on unmet
needs over time and (b) the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce unmet needs …

Objective Patients with rare cancers may experience different unmet needs than those with
common cancer. The objective of this systematic review was to (1) investigate unmet …

This report is a review of studies that focus on rural breast cancer survivorship. It includes a
total of 14 studies using large databases and 27 other studies using qualitative and …

Introduction: The prevalence of chronic disease, mortality and suicide rates is higher in rural
Australia than in urban centres. Understanding rural Australians' barriers to accessing health …

SUTHERLAND G., HILL D., MORAND M., PRUDEN M. & MCLACHLAN S.‐A.(2009)
European Journal of Cancer Care Assessing the unmet supportive care needs of newly …

Purpose: The present research examined the extent to which rural residence and social
support seeking are associated with quality of life (QOL) among breast cancer patients …