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@article{201593,
        author = {Dr. Kathyayini NB and Dr. Pvanjana and Dr. Mayilvanan and Prof. Sravanthi Mettu and Harsha Roshan},
        title = {The Psychological Landscape of the Cancer Journey: Perspectives of Patients, Caregivers, and Oncology Nurses},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {4450-4454},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=201593},
        abstract = {Cancer is a psycho-social and inter-personal as well as a bio-medical disease. Patients can feel anxious, depressed, frightened about recurrence, non-belonging, body issues, loss of control, reticent to death, and eliminating from society through diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, recurrence, and end-of-life care. Family carers can feel burdened by the practical, emotional, financial and decision-making expectations that their role entails, as well as worry, experience depressive symptoms, grieve in advance, and experience role strain. While a vital component of a cancer patient's treatment is the constant emotional and clinical support these nurses offer, they face repeated exposure to suffering, death, moral conflict and excess workload that can result in the development of compassion fatigue/burnout and/or secondary traumatic stress, and moral distress. The three aspects of distress are reviewed in conjunction, and the authors suggest that distress in cancer care is a shared system level phenomenon. Efficient psycho-oncology therefore needs the periodic distress screening, care directed to the caregiver, issues of nurse well-being, communication support and merging palliative care and psychosocial care.},
        keywords = {Cancer journey; psycho-oncology; psychological distress; cancer patients; family caregivers; caregiver burden; oncology nurses; compassion fatigue; burnout; moral distress; emotional wellbeing; anxiety; depression; survivorship; palliative care.},
        month = {May},
        }