Wenjuan Xie, Honglian Wang, Qian Sun, Yuanyuan Wang, Yang Wang, Hui Chen, Xiangxia Liu
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Abstract
Aim: To explore the knowledge and attitude among oncology patients toward proton radiotherapy.Materials & methods: This cross-sectional study was performed using self-designed questionnaire.Results: Based on 546 valid questionnaires, mean knowledge and attitude scores of 3.4 ± 3.6 (range: 0-12) and 31.1 ± 3.5 (range: 10-50) were observed. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that higher education (p = 0.021), higher monthly income (p = 0.005), and proton radiotherapy history (p < 0.001) were independently associated with higher knowledge scores. Higher knowledge (p = 0.020), older age (p = 0.030), not smoking (p = 0.032) and medication use (p = 0.035) were independently associated with higher attitude scores.Conclusion: Oncology patients have insufficient knowledge and negative attitude toward proton radiotherapy, which might be affected by their age, education, income, proton radiotherapy history, employment, smoking and medication use.
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Future Oncology (ISSN 1479-6694) provides a forum for a new era of cancer care. The journal focuses on the most important advances and highlights their relevance in the clinical setting. Furthermore, Future Oncology delivers essential information in concise, at-a-glance article formats - vital in delivering information to an increasingly time-constrained community.
The journal takes a forward-looking stance toward the scientific and clinical issues, together with the economic and policy issues that confront us in this new era of cancer care. The journal includes literature awareness such as the latest developments in radiotherapy and immunotherapy, concise commentary and analysis, and full review articles all of which provide key findings, translational to the clinical setting.