What is it about?
Patients with brain cancer face significant disruptions to their sense of self and quality of life as the disease and its treatments bring many changes. New limitations and uncertainties must be faced. These challenges can interfere with relationships, work, and activities of daily living. Narrative Medicine (NM) sessions provide an occasion and space for patients with brain cancer to share their narratives with an attentive listener and explore issues of meaning and quality of life in the context of their identity.
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Why is it important?
Narrative Medicine sessions encourage patients to share their stories of illness and treatment to come to terms with issues of self-identity and quality of life during treatment for brain cancer. Insights drawn from these discussions can also help the treatment team to communicate with the patient to understand the patient's motivations and priorities.
Perspectives
NM is at the nexus of clinical management and quality of life concerns for brain cancer patients.
Dr Robert B Slocum
University of Kentucky
NM is at the nexus of clinical management and quality of life concerns for brain cancer patients. Understanding the patient’s story is critical for evaluating the significance of impairments due to brain cancer and treatment relative to the patient’s unique sense of self and quality of life.
Dr Robert Boak Slocum
University of Kentucky
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This page is a summary of: Narrative medicine applications for neuro-oncology patient identity and quality of life, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, December 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.11.046.
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