Family Caregivers in Cancer: Roles and Challenges (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version
SECTIONS
- Overview
- The Caregiver’s Perspective: Across the Illness Trajectory
- Physicians Interacting With Family Caregivers
- Potential Roles for the Family Caregiver
- Impacts of Caregiving on the Caregiver’s Quality of Life
- Factors to Consider in Caregiver Assessment
- Interventions for Caregivers
- Current Clinical Trials
- Changes to This Summary (03/15/2017)
- About This PDQ Summary
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Changes to This Summary (03/15/2017)
The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.
Revised text to state that more than 1.6 million new cases of cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States in 2017 (cited American Cancer Society 2017 as reference 1).
This summary is written and maintained by the PDQ Supportive and Palliative Care Editorial Board, which is editorially independent of NCI. The summary reflects an independent review of the literature and does not represent a policy statement of NCI or NIH. More information about summary policies and the role of the PDQ Editorial Boards in maintaining the PDQ summaries can be found on the About This PDQ Summary and PDQ® - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database pages.
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