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Breast Cancer Detection: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Women From Pennsylvania

Dana N. Rutledge
Andrea Barsevick
M. Tish Knobf
Marilyn Bookbinder
ONF 2001, 1032-1040 DOI:
Purpose/Objectives: To assess relationships among breast cancer detection behaviors and selected variables in healthy women. Design: Correlational study. Setting/Sample: A sample of 1,000 women was selected randomly from the 16,500 members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of Pennsylvania...
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

ONF 2001, 793-794 DOI:
Nurses in All Practice Settings Will Benefit From Cancer Prevention and Early-Detection Supplement Reader Requests More Information on Aloe Vera Treatments The Author Replies
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Oncology Nursing Society Position

Prevention and Early Detection of Cancer in the United States

ONF 2001, 789-790 DOI:
In the United States, more than 1,200,000 new cancers are diagnosed in individuals across the lifespan each year. The lifetime risk of developing cancer in the United States is one in two for men and one in three for women. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, with one...
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Mental Health Distress: Oncology Nurses’ Strategies and Barriers in Identifying Distress in Patients With Cancer

Leeat Granek
Ora Nakash
Samuel Ariad
Shahar Shapira
Merav Ben-David
CJON 2019, 23(1), 43-51 DOI: 10.1188/19.CJON.43-51
Background: Oncology nurses have an important role in identifying mental health distress; however, the research to date indicates that oncology nurses often do not accurately detect this distress. Objectives: The aim of this study is to explore oncology nurses’ perspectives on indicators of...
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Perspectives

Previvor: An Oncology Nurse’s Story of Cancer Risk Reduction Through Genetic Testing

Joanne Kelly
CJON 2018, 22(3), 247-248 DOI: 10.1188/18.CJON.247-248
My mother was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer in 1998 at age 48. Her younger sister has been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 33 but ultimately died of ovarian cancer at age 47. Her mother died of ovarian cancer at age 47. I knew my fate. Meanwhile, as the medical world around me...
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