NIH R01 · 2025
Randomized Trial of a Novel Approach to Addressing Fear of Progression in Advanced Cancer
ABSTRACT Precision oncology has led to a growing population of adults with advanced cancer living increasingly longer lives in the face of profound uncertainty about the future, with over half reporting moderate to high fear of cancer progression (FoP)—anxiety about the high risk or certainty of disease progression. These fears are associated with anxiety and depression, over-use of healthcare, physical symptom burden, higher treatment regret, fatigue, and, in many studies, poorer quality of life. Moreover, FoP is strongly correlated with cancer-related trauma symptoms—physical hyperarousal, intrusiveness of cancer-related thoughts/images, and avoidance of cancer- related thoughts and…
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