Supportive Care Needs of Breast Cancer Patients (review) / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among females. During the time of treatment and rehabilitation, the patients and their relatives need to help them to prevent, control or relieve all sorts of complications and adverse events that beyond their medical, surgi-cal or radiation interventions, called Supportive Care Need. There are many tools to evaluate these needs, such as Supportive Care Need Sur-vey, Cancer Patients Needs Questionnaire, etc., and mainly involved the needs of health system, information, patient support, psychology, physical and daily living, and sexuality, varied with the factors of social demography, disease and treatment, and psychology;and the inter-ventions contain cognitive behavior and psychology.