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Factors associated with cancer worries in individuals participating in annual pancreatic cancer surveillance.
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Surveillance Program in High-risk Individuals for Pancreatic Cancer: Prospective Analysis of the Emotional Impact
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Worry about prostate cancer and risk perception among middle-aged men: results from the PROBASE trial.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
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- Current Approaches of Pancreatic Cancer Surveillance in High-Risk Individuals.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2025Review
- Psychological Distress and Quality of Life in Families With a Germline CDKN2A Pathogenic Variant.Molecular genetics & genomic medicine · 2025Article
- The role of endoscopic ultrasound in the detection of pancreatic lesions in high-risk individuals.Familial cancer · 2024Review
- Familial pancreatic cancer: a case study and review of the psychosocial effects of diagnoses on families.Hereditary cancer in clinical practice · 2023Article
- Pancreatic Cancer and the Family Connection: The Role of Advanced Practitioners in Screening and Educating Genetically At-Risk Individuals.Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncology · 2023Review
- Pancreatic Cancer: Changing Epidemiology and New Approaches to Risk Assessment, Early Detection, and Prevention.Gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Predictors of the worry about cancer recurrence among women with breast cancer.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Fear of Cancer Recurrence Associated with Perceived Cognitive Impairment among Women with Cancers: Findings from the Women's Health Initiative Life and Longevity After Cancer Study.Preventive oncology & epidemiology · 2023Article
- Current Screening Strategies for Pancreatic Cancer.Biomedicines · 2022Review
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- Patient-reported burden of intensified surveillance and surgery in high-risk individuals under pancreatic cancer surveillance.Familial cancer · 2020Article
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Abstract
It is important to adequately and timely identify individuals with cancer worries amongst participants in a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) surveillance program, because they could benefit from psychosocial support to decrease distress. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess both psychosocial and clinical factors associated with cancer worries. High-risk individuals participating in PDAC-surveillance were invited to annually complete a cancer worry scale (CWS) questionnaire which was sent after counseling by the clinical geneticist (T0), after intake for participation in PDAC-surveillance (T1), and then annually after every MRI and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) (T2 and further). Analyses were performed to identify factors associated with cancer worries in the second year of surveillance (T3). We found a significant intra-individual decrease in cancer worries (β = -0.84, P < 0.001), nevertheless, 33 % of individuals had a CWS-score ≥14 at T3. We found one factor significantly associated with cancer worries at T3: having a family member affected by PDAC <50 years of age (β = 0.22, P = 0.03). The detection of a cystic lesion, a shortened surveillance interval, or undergoing pancreatic surgery did not lead to more cancer worries (P = 0.163, P = 0.33, and P = 0.53, respectively). In conclusion, this study identified 'a family history of PDAC <50 years of age' as the only predictor of cancer worries experienced after 2 years of surveillance in individuals at high risk of developing PDAC. This knowledge could help clinicians to timely identify individuals 'at risk' for high levels of cancer worries who would likely benefit from psychosocial support.
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