Life goes on … Patient perspectives on having a cancer diagnosis and other comorbid diseases: A qualitative study.

CONCLUSION: Patients prioritized an everyday life with normal chores highly in contrast to paying attention to diseases. Disruptive symptoms, rather than specific diseases, took up patients' attention. Cancer did not change the patients' attendance at chronic care consultations. General practitioners should focus on maintaining the patient's functional level in everyday life. Further, they should continue to prioritize the chronic care management, as this might increase the patients' own view of the importance of self-management. PMID: 30537851 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Chronic Illness - December 11, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Arreskov AB, Graungaard AH, Kristensen MT, Søndergaard J, Davidsen AS Tags: Chronic Illn Source Type: research