Existential Issues in Elderly People With Cancer

The purpose is to describe, interpret and provide a detailed understanding of what it means to be elderly people with cancer who receive treatment in specialized health care. Focus is especially put on the content and expression of existential issues and the importance of spirituality for the patient´s life story and medical story.

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Key information

Conditions

Cancer Neoplasms

Age range

70 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Innlandet Hospital Trust

Brumunddal, 2381, Norway

About this study

Existential and spiritual issues in elderly people with cancer are scarcely investigated with respect to the content and importance of these aspects to this patient group in terms of living with their disease and benefit from specialist health treatment and care. The present study is an independent doctoral study that also has an initial function for an intended multidisciplinary research project with the working title "Aged people with cancer".

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Patients with cancer from the age 70 and older receiving palliative treatment in specialized health care

Exclusion criteria

Terminal patients
Patients considered as too sick for the interview session
Patients with lack of consent

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sykehuset Innlandet HF

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Registry information

Official study title

Existential Issues in Elderly People With Cancer in an Early Palliative Phase- a Phenomenological Hermeneutic Approach

Important dates

Study start: 2011
Primary completion: 2012
Study completion: 2012
First posted: Mar 7, 2011
Registry last updated: Jan 28, 2013

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