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Managing the low-socioeconomic-status prostate cancer patient.

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Management of patients with low socioeconomic status and/or low literacy who have prostate cancer presents a challenge to healthcare professionals. Improving treatment outcomes for these men requires specific educational programs to provide a better understanding of prostate cancer including careful posttreatment follow-up to ensure they have recovered well, that the cancer is not progressing and that complications are not proving troublesome. Practice nurses and health educators/navigators can play an important role in achieving these objectives. Education and knowledgeable advice can lead to earlier diagnosis of prostate cancer, improved patient participation in the treatment decision-making process and effective management of posttreatment complications.

Source: PubMed Central

Author: Walter Rayford

Institution: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans

Language: English

Topic: Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Subfield: Urology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W167655454

FWCI: 0.565

Cites: 28

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10