• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.214-222
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• 2009

이 연구는 중장년층 여성의 유방암과 자궁경부암 검진을 위한 지식, 인지된 자기효능감, 의사소통 기술을 향상시키기 위하여 디자인된 암 검진네비게이터 교육의 효과를 평가하기 위해 수행되었다. 암 검진 네비게이터는 건강에 대한 조언을 해주는 이웃으로 지역사회에서 필요한 정보를 제공하고 암 검진에 관한 정서적 지지를 해준다. 연구 대상자는 12시간의 교육을 받은 40-69세의 여성 33명과 대조군 30명이며, 자료 분석은 SPSS 14.0을 이용하여 기술 분석과 paired t-test를 실시하였다. 교육내용은 암 조기검진을 통한 조기치료 성공사례, 유방암 및 자궁경부암 조기검진의 이점, 암 검진을 위한 보건의료 서비스, 암 조기검진 지도자의 역할, 의사소통 기술, 변화단계 이론 및 역할극으로 구성되었다. 본 연구에서 개발된 암 검진 네비게이터 교육 프로그램은 지역사회 자원을 활용하여 암수검률을 향상시키고자 하였고, 지역사회 주민의 암에 관한 지식과 의사소통 기술을 증진시키는데 효과가 있었다. 이는 지역사회 주민의 암 조기검진 수검률 향상을 위해 암 검진 네비게이터를 지속적으로 육성해야 함을 시사한다. 또한 유방암과 자궁경부암에 대한 조기검진 수검률이 낮은 것은 암에 대한 지식수준이 낮고 암 발생의 심각성, 암 검진의 편익에 대한 이해가 부족하므로 더 많은 홍보의 필요성을 시사하며 암 검진 네비게이터의 지속적인 활동이 이와 같은 문제를 해결하는데 일익을 담당할 것으로 사료된다. 따라서 암으로 인한 사망률 감소를 위해서는 암 검진 수검률을 향상시켜야 하며 이를 위해서는 본 연구에서 개발된 암검진 네비게이터 교육 프로그램의 지속적인 확대와 평가가 이루어져야 한다. 이상의 결과를 바탕으로 다음과 같이 제언하는 바이다. 첫째, 본 연구 결과를 타 지역사회에 적용해 보는 반복 연구와, 둘째, 지역적, 문화적 특성 및 암종별 특성을 고려한 교육으로 암 검진 네비게이터 프로그램을 수정 보완한 연구를 제언한다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권15호
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• pp.6719-6727
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• 2015

Background: The objective of this study was to assess the readability, suitability, and health content of cancer screening information in municipal newspapers in Japan. Materials and Methods: Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) and the framework of Health Belief Model (HBM) were used for assessment of municipal newspapers that were published in central Tokyo (23 wards) from January to December 2013. Results: The mean domain SAM scores of content, literacy demand, and layout/typography were considered superior. The SAM scores of interaction with readers, an indication of the models of desirable actions, and elaboration to enhance readers' self-efficacy were low. According to the HBM coding, messages of medical/clinical severity, of social severity, of social benefits, and of barriers of fear were scarce. Conclusions: The articles were generally well written and suitable. However, learning stimulation/motivation was scarce and the HBM constructs were not fully addressed. Practice implications: Articles can be improved to motivate readers to obtain cancer screening by increasing interaction with readers, introducing models of desirable actions and devices to raise readers' self-efficacy, and providing statements of perceived barriers of fear for pain and time constraints, perceived severity, and social benefits and losses.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.2231-2238
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• 2014

This study investigated how self-rated health and socioeconomic status are associated with behaviour of cancer survivors regarding desire for information. For this association, we compared survivors who did not seek information about cancer with those who did. We examined how sociodemographic, socioeconomic, cancerrelated, and health information factors are associated with self-rated health (SRH) by health information seeking/avoiding behavior in a survey of 502 post-treatment cancer patients. In the information seeking group, all four factors exhibited significant relationships with SRH. SRH values were significantly high for women (p<0.05), non-Hispanic White (p<0.05), and educated (p<0.01) participants, and for those who had high self-efficacy to use health information by themselves (p<0.01). Furthermore, in the information avoiding group, not only were there no significant relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and SRH, but there were negative associations between their attitude/capacity and the SRH. In terms of communication equity, the promotion of information seeking behavior can be an effective way to reduce health disparities that are caused by social inequalities. Information avoiding behavior, however, does not exhibit a negative contribution toward the relationship between SRH and SES. Information seeking behavior was positively associated with SRH, but avoiding behavior was not negatively associated. We thus need to eliminate communication inequalities using health intervention to support information seeking behavior, while simultaneously providing support for avoiders.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.255-259
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• 2013

Background: Cancer is the leading cause of death in Taiwan. Spouses are generally the main caregivers of affectyed patients but previous studies have seldom investigated the needs of male spouses of patients with metastatic cancer. Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of such male spouses. Methods: A qualitative design using in-depth interviewswasconducted with male spouses of patients with metastatic cancer being treated at the oncology outpatient department in a teaching hospital in northern Taiwan. Results: Nine participants aged 31-78 were interviewed. Content analysis of the interviews revealed five themes: suffering and struggling, difficulty in focusing on communication and interaction, shouldering responsibility, cherishing the love between husband and wife, and enabling each other to live better. This study demonstrated how male spousse experienced physical and psychological suffering when their wives suffered from metastatic cancer. They had to bear the pain of their wife's suffering, and also had to shoulder the responsibility for everything. All their efforts were put towards enabling each other to live a better life. They cherished the rest of the time they could spend with their wives, even though they had to live a hard life. As the male spouses of patients with metastatic cancer, the participants exhibited both the masculinity of men and the ability to express care and tenderness. Conclusions: The results showed that male spouses need more attention in terms of communication and bearing with suffering. Health care professionals should more actively understand the needs and provide assistance when facing the male spouse of patients with cancer, so as make sure that they possess the ability to take care of their wives. Health care professionals should also assist and properly act as a bridge of communication between husbands and wives.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.124-131
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• 2024

Breast cancer classification using ultrasound, while widely employed, faces challenges due to its relatively low predictive value arising from significant overlap in characteristics between benign and malignant lesions, as well as operator-dependency. To alleviate these challenges and reduce dependency on radiologist interpretation, the implementation of automatic breast cancer classification in ultrasound image can be helpful. To deal with this problem, we propose a semi-supervised deep learning framework for breast cancer classification. In the proposed method, we could achieve reasonable performance utilizing less than 50% of the training data for supervised learning in comparison to when we utilized a 100% labeled dataset for training. Though it requires more modification, this methodology may be able to alleviate the time-consuming annotation burden on radiologists by reducing the number of annotation, contributing to a more efficient and effective breast cancer detection process in ultrasound images.

• BMB Reports
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2003

Understanding the process of carcinogenesis will involve both the accumulation of many scientific facts derived from molecular, biochemical, cellular, physiological, whole animal experiments and epidemiological studies, as well as from conceptual understanding as to how to order and integrate those facts. From decades of cancer research, a number of the "hallmarks of cancer" have been identified, as well as their attendant concepts, including oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, cell cycle biochemistry, hypotheses of metastasis, angiogenesis, etc. While all these "hallmarks" are well known, two important concepts, with their associated scientific observations, have been generally ignored by many in the cancer research field. The objective of the short review is to highlight the concept of the role of human adult pluri-potent stem cells as "target cells" for the carcinogenic process and the concept of the role of gap junctional intercellular communication in the multi-stage, multi-mechanism process of carcinogenesis. With these two concepts, an attempt has been made to integrate the other well-known concepts, such as the multi-stage, multi-mechanisn or the "initiation/promotion/progression" hypothesis; the stem cell theory of carcinogenesis; the oncogene/tumor suppression theory and the mutation/epigenetic theories of carcinogenesis. This new "integrative" theory tries to explain the well-known "hallmarks" of cancers, including the observation that cancer cells lack either heterologous or homologous gap junctional intercellular communication whereas normal human adult stem cells do not have expressed or functional gap junctional intercellular communication. On the other hand, their normal differentiated, non-stem cell derivatives do express connexins and express gap junctional intercellular communication during their differentiation. Examination of the roles of chemical tumor promoters, oncogenes, connexin knock-out mice and roles of genetically-engineered tumor and normal cells with connexin and anti-sense connexin genes, respectively, seems to provide evidence which is consistent with the roles of both stem cells and gap junctional communication playing a major role in carcinogenesis. The integrative hypothesis provides new strategies for chemoprevention and chemotherapy which focuses on modulating connexin gene expression or gap junctional intercellular communication in the premalignant and malignant cells, respectively.

• 한국가족복지학
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• 제54호
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• pp.77-106
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• 2016

본 연구는 암환자 주부양자의 부양부담이 자녀와의 역기능적 의사소통에 미치는 영향을 파악하고, 가족간 TSL(가족간의 긍정적 사고 및 행동)태도의 조절효과를 검증하는데 목적이 있다. 암환자 주부양자의 부양부담 및 자녀와의 역기능적 의사소통의 경우 가족생활주기에 따른 차이가 존재하므로 청장년층과 중장년층을 구분하여 비교 연구를 실시하였다. 연구를 위한 조사는 2015년 4월부터 9월까지 실시되었으며, 서울에 위치한 대형병원에서 암환자를 부양하고 있는 주부양자 199명이 대상이 되었다. 본 연구 목적에 맞게 자녀가 있는 163명을 최종적으로 분석대상으로 하였으며, 다중회귀분석을 통해 검증하였다. 연구 결과, 청장년층의 경우 암환자 주부양자의 부양부담이 자녀와의 역기능적 의사소통에 유의미하게 영향을 미쳤으며, 두 변수 사이에서 가족간 TSL 태도는 조절효과를 지니는 것으로 나타났다. 반면 중장년층에서는 부양부담이 자녀와의 역기능적 의사소통에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 결과를 바탕으로 암환자 주부양자 및 가족을 위한 사회복지서비스 시스템의 구축과 가족생활주기에 맞는 차별적인 개입 방안, 가족간의 긍정적 태도 형성을 위한 가족관계 증진 프로그램 실시를 제안하였다.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.20-29
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendations(SBAR) program and to test the effects of the program on communication clarity, clinical competence, and self-efficacy for clinical nurses in cancer hospitals. Methods: This study applied a nonequivalent control group non-synchronized design. There were 28 participants in the intervention group and 27 in the control group. SBAR program consisted of 4 parts and applied for 6 weeks in the intervention group. Data were analyzed with ${\chi}^2$ test, Fisher's exact test, t-test and ANCOVA using the SPSS program. Results: Communication clarity, clinical competence and self efficacy were significantly increased in the intervention group compared to those in the control group. Conclusion: These results suggest that SBAR program may improve communication clarity, clinical competence and self-efficacy for clinical nurses in cancer hospitals. Therefore, it is required to actively take advantage of this program to improve communication clarity among medical staffs, clinical competence, and self-efficacy in clinical nursing practices.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.158-166
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• 2015

The early detection of breast cancer is very important. The final goal of this study is to develop an inexpensive portable device for simply detecting the existence of breast cancer using microwaves. In this study, we proposed a detection algorithm and the system configuration of such a device. The feasibility of the proposed method was investigated by numerical simulation and actual measurement. A prototype sensing module was fabricated, and the measurement results for tumor phantoms were presented. The measurement results showed that the prototype sensing module worked well, and the simulation results revealed that the detection rate of the device could be about 60% for a 4 mm tumor and almost 100% for a 6 mm tumor. The proposed device can be used for the self-diagnosis of breast cancer. Further study is required to reduce the size of the sensing module.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권16호
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• pp.6499-6504
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• 2014

Health information-seeking behavior (HISB) is active need-fulfillment behavior whereby health information is obtained from diverse sources, such as the media, and has emerged as an important issue within the transforming medical environment and the rise of medical consumers. However, little is known about the factors that affect HISB and its associations, and the health outcome of HISB. The aim of this study was to examine individual and social contextual factors associated with HISB and to systematically review their effects on health status among post-treatment cancer patients. Individual determinants of HISB included demographic factors, psychosocial factors, perceived efficacy and norms, and health beliefs. Contextual determinants of HISB encompassed community characteristics, neighborhood social capital, and media advocacy. Improving through factors on these two levels, HISB raised individuals' self-care management skills and medical treatment compliance, and enhanced shared decision-making and medical treatment satisfaction. Moreover, because HISB can differ according to individuals' social contextual conditions, it can give rise to communication inequalities. Because these can ultimately lead to health disparities between groups, social interest in HISB and balanced HISB promotion strategies are necessary.