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The role of the GP during cancer treatment how
patients and GPs saw it. Rehabilitation of
cancer patients and survivors Is general
practice in or out? Ann Dorrit Guassora, MD,
PhD Rikke Dalsted, PhD-student, MSc,
nurse Thorkil Thorsen, MA, PhilDr The Department
and Research Unit for General Practice, University
of Copenhagen.
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Background Studies say When the patients get
cancer they stop seeing me Information from the
hospitals The role of the GP in the care of
cancer patients during the time when they are
treated in hospital
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Methods Cancer patients 12 individual
interviews General practitioners 2 focusgroups
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The current role of the GP during treatment of
cancer patients According to GPs Often did
not have any role Support and discussions GP5S
What we have to offer is more about the
existential questions, their worries, their
anxieties, their families, the relationship with
their children, and
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The current role of the GP during treatment of
cancer patients Depending on prior relation
and the quality of the contact Continuing
contact to patients who had few ressources GP4S
Maybe its our job exactly to take care of the
ones who are not educated and the poorest of our
patients.
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The current role of the GP during treatment of
cancer patients According to patients Most
patients did not need their GP during
treatment Patient4L No, I did not need him.
Because I had it from the hospital. So I did not
need him when I had treatment.
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The current role of the GP during treatment of
cancer patients According to patients Most
patients did not see a role for the GP in
coordinating their treatment I You did not
consider calling the GP? Patient1P No () No,
I called them at the out-patient clinic. They
had given us the phonenumber, the two specialist
nurses who could help answering. The GP does not
know about such matters.
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Discussion Is the GP in or out during
treatment? Overdose of health care But
returning some day to the care of the GP