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Self-management: Enabling and empowering patients living with cancer as a chronic illness - CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

High cumulative incidence of cancer in patients with cardio-renal-anaemia syndrome (chronic kidney disease)

Aims
The combination of chronic kidney disease (CKD), chronic heart failure (HF), and anaemia, the so-called cardio-renal-anaemia syndrome (CRA) is associated with dysregulation of erythropoietin levels and inflammation. Both have been associated with the development of cancer. This study aimed to determine the cumulative incidence of cancer in patients with CRA, as compared with anaemic CKD and control patients.

Reminder: A patient's perspective on ovarian cancer as a chronic disease—Devaluing a survivor's challenge Caridad Vera-Garcia

Note: Cary is now with us 'in spirit'

Is the current concept of recurrent ovarian carcinoma as a chronic disease also applicable in platinum resistant patients?

Note: the authors' opinions confirm ovarian cancer as a chronic disease

Revisiting biographical disruption: Exploring individual embodied illness experience in people with terminal cancer

"Biographical accounts of illness offer useful insights into the social and adaptive processes of living with chronic illness. Yet there are concerns that the underlying theoretical assumptions of a reflexive self seeking to maintain meaning may not reflect the lived experience of individuals....We discuss the possibilities for new approaches to clinical assessment and management of need."