ArticleOncology nursing forum2013
A double whammy: health promotion among cancer survivors with preexisting functional limitations.
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- The experience of financial burden for people with multimorbidity: A systematic review of qualitative research.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Pooled it
- Living with and beyond cancer with comorbid illness: a qualitative systematic review and evidence synthesis.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2019Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Unmet Supportive Care Needs, Barriers, and Facilitators for People with Physical Disabilities and Cancer.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Review
- The intersection between pre-existing disability and cancer-survivorship: A narrative review.Health promotion perspectives · 2025Review
- Perspectives of Patients with Pre-existing Mobility Disability on the Process of Diagnosing Their Cancer.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- Exploring attitudes about developing cancer among patients with pre-existing mobility disability.Psycho-oncology · 2021Article
- WeCanConnect: Development of a Community-Informed mHealth Tool for People with Disabilities and Cancer.Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action · 2019Article
- Are long-term cancer survivors and physicians discussing health promotion and healthy behaviors?Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2016Article
- A Conceptual Framework of Self-advocacy in Women With Cancer.ANS. Advances in nursing scienceReview
- Nurturing Advocacy Inclusion to Bring Health Equity in Breast Cancer among African American Women.Breast cancer managementArticle
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Abstract
PURPOSE/
objectivesTo explore the experience of living with a preexisting functional disability and a cancer diagnosis and to identify strategies that promote health in the growing population of cancer survivors. RESEARCH APPROACH: Qualitative, descriptive.
settingFour sites in the United States.
participants19 female cancer survivors with preexisting disabling conditions. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH: Four focus groups were conducted. The group discussions were audio recorded and transcribed and analyzed using content analysis techniques.
findingsAnalytic categories included living with a cancer diagnosis, health-promotion strategies, and wellness program development for survivors with preexisting functional limitations. Participants described many challenges associated with managing a cancer diagnosis on top of living with a chronic disabling functional limitation. They identified strategies to maintain health and topics in health-promotion programs tailored for this unique group of cancer survivors.
conclusionsThe "double whammy" of a cancer diagnosis for people with preexisting functional limitations requires modification of health-promotion strategies and programs to promote wellness in this group of cancer survivors.
interpretationNurses and other healthcare providers must attend to patients' preexisting conditions as well as the challenges of the physical, emotional, social, and economic sequelae of a cancer diagnosis. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION: Cancer survivors with preexisting functional disabilities had difficulties finding cancer care providers who could manage their unique needs. That may be because some cancer-care providers are inadequately prepared to care for patients with cancer who have complex preexisting conditions. Cancer survivors with preexisting conditions may benefit from health-promotion programs that emphasize self-advocacy strategies, management of the economic impact of multiple diagnoses, and wellness activities adapted to their unique functional limitations.
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