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ArticleJournal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2021

Implementation of Self-Management Interventions in Cancer Survivors: Why Are We Not There Yet?

Ben Rimmer, Linda Sharp, Ways Ahead study team

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Article in Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Barriers and facilitators to self-management in people living with a lower-grade glioma.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025
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  6. Co-designing a web-based intervention (RESTORE) to support self-management of cancer-related fatigue in people living with a brain tumour.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  8. In pursuit of a functional cure for follicular lymphoma.Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program · 2024
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  11. Understanding supported self-management for people living with a lower-grade glioma: Implementation considerations through the lens of normalisation process theory.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ben RimmerPopulation Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University Centre for Cancer, Newcastle University, Ridley Building 1, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England, UK. ben.rimmer@newcastle.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4110-0588
Linda SharpPopulation Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University Centre for Cancer, Newcastle University, Ridley Building 1, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England, UK.
Ways Ahead study team
Newcastle University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the growing evidence base for supported self-management for the improvement of quality of life, there is a lack of widespread implementation of self-management interventions for cancer survivors. We propose five key areas that, if addressed, would optimise the development and evaluation of these interventions, namely: (1) improving intervention adaptability to different survivor populations; (2) establishing intervention acceptability (and feasibility); (3) ensuring systematic description of interventions, their content, and active ingredients; (4) conducting process evaluations; and (5) assessing cost-effectiveness. These areas are an essential prerequisite for translation of self-management interventions from research into routine cancer care.

Indexed as

Cancer SurvivorsNeoplasmsSelf-ManagementHumansQuality of LifeSurvivorsCancerInterventionsSelf-managementSurvivorship

Identifiers

PMID33934312
PMCPMC8605969
OpenAlexW3158771231

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