title: Brain function, learning styles, and cancer patient education.
abstract: As cancer care moves into the outpatient setting and hospital stays are shortened, patients and their family members are expected to take on tremendous responsibilities in providing their own self-care. At the same time, stress and anxiety about the diagnosis of cancer, the disease itself, and cancer therapy can effect learning. Information processing, learning styles, and learning barriers need to be considered when developing and implementing cancer education programs.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Patient Education Office, Houston 77030.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Villejo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyers
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011932:Reading