Vivar Cristina García, McQueen Anne
Department of Community and Maternal-Child Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain.
J Adv Nurs. 2005 Sep;51(5):520-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03524.x.
This paper presents a review of the informational and emotional needs of long-term breast cancer survivors, with particular attention to the different needs of women according to their age and to critiquing healthcare provision to these women.
Women with a history of breast cancer are the largest group of cancer survivors. While they may be disease-free, their cancer diagnosis has ongoing physical and psychosocial implications for their lives and well-being.
A literature search for the period 1985 to March 2004 was undertaken using the CINAHL, MEDLINE, CANCERLIT, PubMed and CUIDEN databases and the keywords long-term, breast cancer survivors, needs and social support. Hand-searching was also done, and reference lists of papers were examined for relevant studies.
Survivors of breast cancer continue to experience informational and emotional needs during their long-term survivorship, and variation in the amount and type of support required is age-related. However, women's needs are often unmet by oncology teams and they have to find other sources of support, such as self-help groups. Thus, ongoing care is required after completion of medical treatment, and nurses have a significant contribution to make here.
Nursing research on long-term breast cancer survivorship is limited. Future studies need to investigate the unmet needs of long-term survivors of breast cancer and, specifically, explore the kind of support women would like to receive from oncology teams, and particularly from breast cancer nurses.
本文综述了长期乳腺癌幸存者的信息需求和情感需求，特别关注不同年龄女性的不同需求，并对为这些女性提供的医疗服务进行批判。
有乳腺癌病史的女性是癌症幸存者中最大的群体。虽然她们可能已无疾病，但癌症诊断对其生活和幸福感仍有持续的身体和心理影响。
利用CINAHL、MEDLINE、CANCERLIT、PubMed和CUIDEN数据库，检索1985年至2004年3月期间的文献，关键词为长期、乳腺癌幸存者、需求和社会支持。还进行了手工检索，并查阅了论文的参考文献列表以寻找相关研究。
乳腺癌幸存者在长期生存期间持续存在信息需求和情感需求，所需支持的数量和类型存在与年龄相关的差异。然而，肿瘤学团队往往无法满足女性的需求，她们不得不寻找其他支持来源，如自助小组。因此，在完成医疗治疗后仍需要持续护理，护士在这方面可做出重大贡献。
关于长期乳腺癌生存的护理研究有限。未来的研究需要调查长期乳腺癌幸存者未得到满足的需求，特别是探索女性希望从肿瘤学团队，尤其是乳腺癌护士那里获得何种支持。
