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The Hidden Morbidity of Cancer: Burden in Caregivers of Patients with Brain Metastases.
The Nursing clinics of North America
  • Marlon Garzo Saria, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Providence Saint John's Health Center
  • Adeline Nyamathi
  • Linda R Phillips
  • Annette L Stanton
  • Lorraine Evangelista
  • Santosh Kesari, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Providence Saint John's Health Center
  • Sally Maliski
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2017
Keywords
  • Adaptation, Psychological,
  • Brain Neoplasms,
  • Caregivers,
  • Female,
  • Humans,
  • Male,
  • Neoplasm Metastasis,
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local,
  • Quality of Life,
  • Stress, Psychological
Disciplines
Abstract

Caregiving is a highly individualized experience. Although numerous articles have been published on caregiver burden from a variety of diagnoses and conditions, this article presents the unique features of caregiving in patients with brain metastases. Improved long-term survival, concerns about disease recurrence or progression, the cancer experience (initial diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, recurrence, progression, and end of life), and the increasing complexity of cancer treatments add to the demands placed on the caregivers of patients with brain metastases. Health care professionals must identify caregiver burden and administer the appropriate interventions, which must be as unique and individualized as the caregivers' experiences.

Clinical Institute
Cancer
Specialty
Nursing
Specialty
Oncology
Citation Information
Marlon Garzo Saria, Adeline Nyamathi, Linda R Phillips, Annette L Stanton, et al.. "The Hidden Morbidity of Cancer: Burden in Caregivers of Patients with Brain Metastases." The Nursing clinics of North America (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marlon-saria/46/