Navigating Concurrent Diagnoses With Cancer and Mental Health Disorder: Patients' Perspectives on Personalised Treatment and Care
Kim Jørgensen, Maria Estrup Scredi, Kathrine Holmstrøm Ougaard, Hanne Elisabeth Bagger Hansen, Kimmie Juul Heine, Sofie Schuster, Helle Pappot, Karin Piil · 2026
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Kim Jørgensen and co-authors listen in 2026 to patients who carry two heavy diagnoses at once: cancer and a mental health disorder. Care systems built around the tumor can leave the mind unattended, and little was known about how these patients experience being seen, kept informed, and let into decisions. The team interviewed eleven such patients at two Danish hospitals.
Six themes braided out of the talks. Patients felt their mental illness was left outside the room while the cancer was treated. They did hidden work coordinating a fragmented system themselves. Communication counted as care when it was predictable and adapted to them. Cancer treatment could trigger mental health deterioration, a thread the interviews trace in detail. The study's ask is personalization in the plain sense: build the plan around the whole person, with their psychological vulnerability named in the chart, not discovered by crisis.
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| CREATOR | Kim Jørgensen, Maria Estrup Scredi, Kathrine Holmstrøm Ougaard, Hanne Elisabeth Bagger Hansen, Kimmie Juul Heine, Sofie Schuster, Helle Pappot, Karin Piil |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |