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The role of the GP during cancer treatment: how patients and GPs saw it.

The role of the GP during cancer treatment: how patients and GPs saw it. Rehabilitation of cancer patients and survivors: Is general practice in or out? Ann Dorrit Guassora, MD, PhD Rikke Dalsted, PhD-student, MSc, nurse Thorkil Thorsen, MA, PhilDr

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The role of the GP during cancer treatment: how patients and GPs saw it.

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  1. The role of the GP during cancer treatment: how patients and GPs saw it. Rehabilitation of cancer patients and survivors: Is general practice in or out? Ann Dorrit Guassora, MD, PhD Rikke Dalsted, PhD-student, MSc, nurse Thorkil Thorsen, MA, PhilDr The Department and Research Unit for General Practice, University of Copenhagen.

  2. Background Studies say: ”When the patients get cancer they stop seeingme” Information from the hospitals The role of the GP in the care of cancer patientsduring the time whentheyaretreated in hospital

  3. Methods Cancer patients – 12 individual interviews General practitioners – 2 focusgroups

  4. The current role of the GP during treatment of cancer patients: According to GPs: Often did not have any role Support and discussions GP5S: ”…What we have to offer is more about the existential questions, their worries, their anxieties, their families, the relationship with their children, and…”

  5. The current role of the GP during treatment of cancer patients: Depending on prior relation and the quality of the contact Continuing contact to patients who had few ressources GP4S: ”Maybe it’s our job exactly to take care of the ones who are not educated and the poorest of our patients.”

  6. The currentrole of the GP duringtreatment of cancer patients: According to patients: Most patients did not needtheir GP duringtreatment Patient4L: ”No, I did not needhim. Because I had it from the hospital. So I did not needhimwhen I had treatment.”

  7. The currentrole of the GP duringtreatment of cancer patients: According to patients: Most patients did not see a role for the GP in coordinatingtheirtreatment I: ”You did not considercalling the GP?” Patient1P: ”No (…) No, I calledthem [at the out-patientclinic]. They had given us the phonenumber, the two specialist nurses whocouldhelpanswering. The GP does not knowaboutsuchmatters.”

  8. Discussion Is the GP in or out during treatment? ”Overdose” of health care But returning some day to the care of the GP…

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