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INTRODUCTIONLung cancer, as one of the most fatal diseases, accounted for 11.4% of new cancer cases worldwide in 2020. In China, epidemiology studies found an estimated 815,563 new diagnoses of lung cancer in 2020, and 714,699 people died from the disease in the same year (Cao et al., 2021; Sung et al., 2021). As new therapies are developed and the disease is diagnosed earlier, healthcare providers tended to replace overall survival with progression‐free survival (PFS), which refers to the time from random assignment in a clinical trial to disease progression or mortality (Gutman et al., 2013). As a result, patients tended to view progression‐free survival (PFS) as a putative surrogate end point of cancer treatments, after balancing the pros and cons of treatments (Raphael et al., 2019). In this way, PFS created a coexistence of living and dying for cancer patients, in which psychosocial consequences has not been adequately addressed in the literature (Arantzamendi et al., 2020).Previous studies identified cancer trajectory as a significant stressor for patients, which is not only physically and financially burdensome but also emotionally provoking (Su et al., 2021; Tan et al., 2018; Teixeira et al., 2018). Chinese lung cancer patients reported higher levels of psychological distress, mainly manifested as depression and anxiety
European Journal of Cancer Care – Wiley
Published: Nov 1, 2022
Keywords: caregiver; China; extrinsic emotional regulation; lung cancer; patient
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