Collaboration patients-health care providers

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Daily suffering of patients and their relatives is often ignored or underestimated. Scientific advances focus on medical treatments and survival and very little on the psychosocial impact of the disease. The shared expertise between breast cancer pat...

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Published inRevue médicale suisse Vol. 3; no. 130; pp. 2418 - 2420
Main Authors Grezet-Bento de Carvalho, Angela, Griesser, Anne-Claude, Hertz, Silvana, Constantin, Michèle, Forni, Michel, Blagojevic, Stina, Bouchardy, Christine, Vlastos, Georges
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published Switzerland 24.10.2007
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Breast Neoplasms - therapy
Female
Health Personnel
Humans
Patient Compliance
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Summary:Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Daily suffering of patients and their relatives is often ignored or underestimated. Scientific advances focus on medical treatments and survival and very little on the psychosocial impact of the disease. The shared expertise between breast cancer patients and health care providers is an innovative and promising approach aiming to provide better quality of life and care. The participation of patients permits to bring together professionals around common goals and to promote multidisciplinary disease management, networking and global care. Focusing on very concrete problems highlighted from patients' expertise also improves research, medical training, and health policy standards.
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ISSN:1660-9379