Managing the low-socioeconomic-status prostate cancer patient.
Management of patients with low socioeconomic status and/or low literacy who have prostate cancer presents a challenge to healthcare professionals. Improving treatment outcomes for these men requires specific educational programs to provide a better understanding of prostate cancer including careful posttreatment follow-up to ensure they have recovered well, that the cancer is not progressing and that complications are not proving troublesome. Practice nurses and health educators/navigators can play an important role in achieving these objectives. Education and knowledgeable advice can lead to earlier diagnosis of prostate cancer, improved patient participation in the treatment decision-making process and effective management of posttreatment complications.
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Department of Urology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans 70112, USA. wrayfo@lsuhsc.edu
D003657:Decision Making; D004522:Educational Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors