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Factors Associated with 'Survivor Identity' in Men with Breast Cancer
- Source :
- Current Oncology, Vol 28, Iss 158, Pp 1696-1705 (2021), Current Oncology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 158-1705
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Cancer patients vary in their comfort with the label “survivor”. Here, we explore how comfortable males with breast cancer (BC) are about accepting the label cancer “survivor”. Separate univariate logistic regressions were performed to assess whether time since diagnosis, age, treatment status, and cancer stage were associated with comfort with the “survivor” label. Of the 70 males treated for BC who participated in the study, 58% moderately-to-strongly liked the term “survivor”, 26% were neutral, and 16% moderately-to-strongly disliked the term. Of the factors we explored, only a longer time since diagnosis was significantly associated with the men endorsing a survivor identity (OR = 1.02, p = 0.05). We discuss how our findings compare with literature reports on the comfort with the label “survivor” for women with BC and men with prostate cancer. Unlike males with prostate cancer, males with BC identify as “survivors” in line with women with BC. This suggests that survivor identity is more influenced by disease type and treatments received than with sex/gender identities.
- Subjects :
- Male
cancer survivor
Identity (social science)
male breast cancer
Disease
cancer identity
Article
Breast Neoplasms, Male
Prostate cancer
Breast cancer
Cancer Survivors
Survivorship curve
gender
Humans
sex
Medicine
Survivors
RC254-282
Cancer survivor
business.industry
Prostatic Neoplasms
Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Cancer
social sciences
medicine.disease
humanities
Logistic Models
Male breast cancer
population characteristics
business
survivorship
human activities
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17187729
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Oncology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....68653e56f4a640961c89b071708c61a8