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She lectures and runs training workshops throughout the world in psychosocial oncology, quality of life assessment and communication skills. In she was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Professor Fallowfield lives in Brighton and has 2 adult children, one a consultant hepatologist and the other a paediatric community nurse. He studied philosophy and medicine at the universities of Giessen, Heidelberg, and Glasgow Scotland.
He started his career in internal medicine and worked for almost seven years in the Department of Medical Oncology at Heidelberg University, and then moved to child psychiatry at the University of Cologne. After receiving the board certificate as specialist for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy he further qualified in psychosomatic medicine. Later he adapted the modular approach of quality of life assessment in adult medicine to child and adolescent psychiatry and developed a multi-informant quality of life inventory for use in child psychiatric patients.
He has authored or co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs with a focus on aspects of cancer treatment in elderly patients. Add to my bookshelf. Rehabilitation and palliation became a vital a part of sleek entire melanoma care. However, this book focuses on improving well being of the cancer patient versus curative measures. On the basis of animal models of inflammation-induced sickness behaviour, he hypothesizes that inflammation and its downstream toxic effects represent a significant biological basis for subjectively reported clusters of symptoms, cognitive impairment, and neuropathies.
Further research areas include psychopathology, eating and hyperactivity disorders. In Magdeburg he established new collaboration with the neurosciences in order to employ modern imaging techniques, mainly in patients with attention deficit disorders. Dr Patricia Garcia Prieto.
She was diagnosed with melanoma on European Melanoma Day in , when her sons were 3 and 8. She fought for access to clinical trials. After a long struggle, she obtained the E form to allow her to participate in a PLX trial in Paris. She has also been blocked from a cancer vaccine study in the UK for not being a UK citizen.
He then worked for more than 4 years for the media company Bertelsmann Germany. In , he co-founded Bertelsmann's in-house startup BeMobile, heading product management, business development and marketing. The reason for engaging in cancer advocacy in July was that Jan received his diagnosis of a rare cancer, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia CML at the age of 28 years. It today connects 55 leukaemia patient groups from all continents, sharing best practice in cancer patient advocacy and running joint campaigns.
In , he co-founded the European Cancer Patient Coalition ECPC to represent the views of cancer patient organisations in European healthcare, as well as to provide a forum for European patients to share best practice on patient advocacy.
In the first years, Jan has been a founding member and Vice President of the Coalition. His activities included getting ECPC member organisations from 42 countries connected, to speak on behalf of cancer patients at conferences, as well as working with various stakeholders to make information about clinical research more available to patients He has participated in a number of consortia of FP7-funded projects, e. In , Jan left his job in the industry to turn his volunteer work for cancer patients into his profession.
He became the first full time Director of the Coalition. He left the organisation in November Today, Jan is Founder and Executive Director of Patvocates, taking forward a number of leading initiatives in the triangle of cancer policy, patient advocacy and social media. A psychologist, Dr Gotay has a long career in cancer prevention and control research. Her clinical experience at the University Hospital Department of Gynaecology focuses on female health issues especially related to gynaecological cancer.
Dr Greimel has worked extensively on numerous research and clinical projects in psychosocial oncology.
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She has been a member of the EORTC Quality of Life Group for many years currently member of the Executive Committee and she has coordinated the development of several quality of life modules for gynaecologic cancer. Her research interests include instrument development, cross-cultural validation, clinical application and implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in clinical research settings. Dr Greimel has broad international experience in various cancer clinical trial groups. She has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in psychooncology and quality of life research.
He also obtained special degrees in clinical psychology and health psychology , Vienna and psychotherapy , Munich. Currently, one of his main research foci is the development of software CHES for the electronic collection of QOL data and its implementation in daily oncological practice.
Her research experience covers a range of disciplines, including biostatistics, epidemiology, psychometrics, health economics and clinical research both medical and nursing , with applications in cancer, asthma and dementia.
Her interests and expertise focus on the measurement, analysis, interpretation and application of health-related quality of life, utility, preferences, and other patient-reported outcomes. Michael Koller received his Ph. His research interests include psychological aspects of clinical studies, outcome conceptualization and assessment and quality of life. She has been investigating the underlying structure of the variables in the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire applying different multivariate data analysis tecniques and she is currently working on a project concerning module development.
She has participated in several international meetings with posters and presentations.
Her research interests include Quality of Life and palliative cares and analysis of genetic data from microarrays. She is co-author of several papers. Dr Marisa Matias holds a PhD on the relationship between health and environment which she gained at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
She is the author of several articles, book chapters and other publications in the domains of the relationship between environment and public health, science and knowledge, and democracy and citizenship. She was elected as Member of the Year in the health domain in which is a prize promoted by The Parliament Magazine and voted on by the members of the parliament.
David has a degree in pharmacology, and an MSc and PhD. He is particularly interested in drug safety, trial methodology and reporting, and communication of data to the public. David enjoys boating, woodwork, and tending his herb and physic garden. She has over peer-reviewed published articles and is a member of numerous international oncology scientific societies. She received in , the Pezcoller Foundation-ECCO award as a recognition for her unique contribution to oncology and for the dedication of her professional life to the improvement of cancer treatment, care and research. Her graduate training is in the social sciences.
Collaborative research with colleagues at FHCRC addresses survivorship, treatment decision making, internet assessments of symptoms and quality of life, and comparative effectiveness research. She is a Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Her current research interests include communicating the clinical importance of quality of life results, incorporating individual variation in the interpretation of treatment regimen effects on quality of life outcomes in cancer clinical trials, and using item bank short forms and computer adaptive tests CAT in cancer clinical trials.
Since then he has spoken in more than 30 high-level conferences throughout Europe and has stood as a patient advocate for national cancer patients organisations in dialogue with national healthcare institutions — He eventually became a public advisor to the Ministry of Health in Lithuania. It was established to represent the views of cancer patients in the European healthcare debate and to provide a forum for European cancer patients to exchange information and share best practice experiences.
He completed his higher medical training in the speciality of Pharmaceutical Medicine. He works in the licensing division of the MHRA, mainly reviewing oncology products. During this period, she has received several awards for her work and published together with the other members the results in several scientific journals. Jaap Reijneveld is a neurologist and staff member in the departments of Neurology at the University Medical Center and the Academic Medical Center, both situated in Amsterdam.
At both institutions, he treats patients with primary and metastatic brain tumours. Apart from his clinical work, he is involved in research projects on cognitive disturbances, epilepsy, and quality- and end-of-life issues in patients with primary brain tumours. He is project leader of a number of PhD projects on underlying mechanisms resulting in epilepsy and cognitive disturbances in patients with brain tumours or other intracranial lesions. Furthermore, he is involved in research projects regarding the value of supportive care of primary brain tumour patients and their partners, as well as interventions aimed at improvement of health-related quality of life of glioma patients during the end-of-life phase.
In addition, he is project leader on several projects on genomic markers as prognostic and predictive tools in glioma patients. She previously served as Associate Programme Director for the graduate programme in Clinical Epidemiology. Her research interests include the quality of life of cancer patients, clinical decision making, and the treatment of head and neck and GI malignancies. She has a special interest in upper GI malignancies, including oesophagus and stomach cancers. She was recently appointed medical lead for head and neck cancer survivorship at the Princess Margaret Hospital.
Sloan was trained as a mathematical statistician, obtaining his doctorate from the University of Manitoba, Canada in He held appointments in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Manitoba for 10 years before coming to the Mayo Clinic in He has over 20 years of experience as a statistical consultant and researcher into measurement issues and clinical trials. Other areas of emphasis have included phase I clinical trials, pediatric oncology, and lung cancer. This goal is the guiding theme through out the book. The book contains experiences of the author and specific instructions how to assess, treat, and evaluate rehabilitation and palliation in cancer patients.
To maintain quality of life is an important challenge not only for health aftercare service, but also in palliative and terminal situations The invasiveness of some of the current therapies and the restricted life expectancy of many patients led to the change in therapeutic paradigms. Rehabilitation and palliation have become an essential part of modern comprehensive cancer care.
There are many excellent text books in cancer management which provide therapeutic recommendations thereby influencing the disease. However, this book focuses on improving well being of cancer patient versus curative measures. Quality of life is now the second parameter after survival used to evaluate the effectiveness of first line oncologial therapies and is still the first parameter of most therapies in the case of recurrence.
Ethical competence and communication skills are just as important. Under no circumstances should therapeutical decisions be made exclusively depending on response in terms of likelihood of remission; Goals such as reduction of physical symptoms, emotional stabilisation, and maintenance of daily activities are pre-eminent and are the focus of the book. This book contains experiences of the author and specific instructions how to assess, treat and evaluate rehabilitative and palliative measures. The book contains experiences of the author and specific instructions how to assess, treat, and evaluate rehabilitation Springer Shop Bolero Ozon.
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