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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade orden Bengt Glimelius.
16. Screening and Assessment of Distress, Anxiety, and Depression in Cancer Patients
Sammanfattning : Aims and Methods The overall aim was to evaluate methods of screening and assessment of distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients. Further, to evaluate effects of a psychosocial intervention and to explore changes of distress, anxiety, depression, and HRQoL during six months. LÄS MER
17. Vaccine Therapy of Colorectal Cancer Patients with Tumor Associated Antigens
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, two different vaccines were evaluated as adjuvant therapy for patients with colorectal cancer. The ability of the two candidate vaccines to generate antigen-specific cellular and humoral responses, respectively, was studied. LÄS MER
18. Living and Coping with Cancer : Specific Challenges and Adaptation
Sammanfattning : The overall aims of this thesis were to prospectively investigate how specific challenges among patients with commonly occurring cancers are related to adaptation and well-being, to predict later well-being using a range of psychosocial aspects and to compare two ways of measuring coping with cancer. This was studied at diagnosis in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and their spouses and at termination of cancer treatment and during follow-up in a heterogeneous group of cancers. LÄS MER
19. Hope and Despair : Philosophy of life, expectations and optimism in cancer patients and their spouses
Sammanfattning : The general aim was to explore philosophy of life, expectations and optimism in patients and spouses in two different cancer situations, and to determine whether these aspects had relevance for psychological distress and quality of life. The first situation was being newly diagnosed with advanced cancer. LÄS MER
20. Prognostic and Predictive Factors in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Sammanfattning : The outcome for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients has improved substantially in recent decades. This has chiefly been observed in study populations, and predominantly in left-sided primary tumours, which is why we wanted to study if and how survival has improved in the background population. LÄS MER