Purpose/Objectives: To identify symptom clusters in older adult breast cancer survivors (ages 65-97 years) and examine whether symptom clusters are related to demographic, health, and quality-of-life variables. Design: Factor analysis to identify possible symptom clusters. The resulting clusters...

Purpose/Objectives: To describe the experiences of older women regarding barriers to care for breast cancer in their prediagnostic period and throughout their diagnoses, treatments, and beyond. Research Approach: Qualitative, descriptive study guided by grounded theory. Setting: Participants' homes...

Purpose/Objectives: To examine themes associated with falls specific to older adult patients diagnosed with cancer. Design: Prospective, exploratory, qualitative study. Setting: A senior adult oncology program at a cancer and research center in the southeastern United States. Sample: Men and women...

Purpose/Objectives: To conduct a metasynthesis of human sleep studies that included women aged 50 years and older with breast cancer across chemotherapy treatment. Data Sources: English publications were searched with the terms sleep and breast cancer via Ovid, PubMed, and EBSCO-host databases...