Patient-Centered Care in Breast Cancer Genetic Clinics

Patient-Centered Care in Breast Cancer Genetic Clinics

With advances in breast cancer (BC) gene panel testing, risk counseling has become increasingly complex, potentially leading to unmet psychosocial needs. We assessed psychosocial needs and correlates in women initiating testing for high genetic BC risk in clinics in France and Germany, and compared these results with data from a literature review. Among the 442 counselees consecutively approach...

Patient Centered Care Model

Patient - Centered Health Care

As the United States debates how to reorganize its health care system, policy makers must ask what patients really want and need from their primary care providers. There is often a disconnect between what patients say they want and what other providers or payers think patients want. Our research at the National Partnership for Women and Families suggests that a truly patient-centered health car...

Responsible Patient-centered Care

Patient-centered research to inform patient-centered care for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer.

The 2 studies of young adult cancer survivors highlighted in this issue of Cancer are exemplars of a body of survivorship research that has emerged since Mullan’s seminal article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985, which acknowledged a trajectory of survivorship that initiates at diagnosis and continues through extended phases of treatment and transitions into off-treatment survival...