[Collaboration patients-health care providers].
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Daily suffering of patients and their relatives is often ignored or underestimated. Scientific advances focus on medical treatments and survival and very little on the psychosocial impact of the disease. The shared expertise between breast cancer patients and health care providers is an innovative and promising approach aiming to provide better quality of life and care. The participation of patients permits to bring together professionals around common goals and to promote multidisciplinary disease management, networking and global care. Focusing on very concrete problems highlighted from patients' expertise also improves research, medical training, and health policy standards.
Association Savoir Patient--Réseau cancer du sein, Bd de la Cluse, Genève. abcgrezet@savoirpatient.ch
Angela
A
Grezet-Bento de Carvalho
Anne-Claude
AC
Griesser
Silvana
S
Hertz
Michèle
M
Constantin
Michel
M
Forni
Stina
S
Blagojevic
Christine
C
Bouchardy
Georges
G
Vlastos
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance