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ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2019

Psychological support of esophageal cancer patient?

Eleonora Pinto, Francesco Cavallin, Marco Scarpa

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Review in Journal of thoracic disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing Jejunostomy and Nasogastric Feeding in Minimally Invasive McKeown Esophagectomy.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2020
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  15. Psychological distress after esophageal cancer surgery and the predictive effect of dispositional optimism: a nationwide population-based longitudinal study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022
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  17. Health-related quality of life after esophagectomy in patients with esophageal cancer.Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Eleonora PintoEsophageal and Digestive Tract Surgical Unit, Regional Centre for Esophageal Disease, Veneto Institute of Oncology (IOV-IRCCS), Padova, Italy.
Francesco CavallinIndependent Statistician, Solagna, Italy.
Marco ScarpaGeneral Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Padova, Italy.
Azienda Ospedale - Università Padova · ITIstituto Nazionale di Statistica · ITIstituto Oncologico Veneto · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Important questions are still open about psychological aspects in esophageal cancer (EC) and about the related psychological support. How to cope with the cancer diagnosis and poor prognosis: a psychological counselling may be a valid option to personalize the communication to patients with a poor prognosis. How to cope with long chemoradiotherapy: after neoadjuvant therapy, patients know that curative process is not completed, and they perceive the severity of the neoadjuvant side effects, considering themselves "fragile" and far from a healthy condition before the major surgery they are going to undergo. Therefore, this is a particularly crucial point when psychological support may be useful. How to cope with change of nutritional habits: esophagectomy for cancer strongly impairs nutritional function in the early postoperative period and feeding Jejunostomy impairs emotional function. How to cope with sleep disturbances: most cancer patients report disturbed sleep after cancer diagnosis and/or following cancer treatment. Psychological intervention aims to identify underlying concerns worsening sleep quality. How to cope with postoperative complications: the occurrence of such complications reduces patient's satisfaction and has a negative effect on doctor-patient relationship. How to cope with long-term functions impairment: EC patients need a plan for the future.

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esophageal cancer (EC)esophagectomyPsychological supportquality of life

Identifiers

PMID31080642
PMCPMC6503274
OpenAlexW2917002417

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