[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.
Grezet-Bento de Carvalho
Angela
A
Association Savoir Patient--Réseau cancer du sein, Bd de la Cluse, Genève. abcgrezet@savoirpatient.ch
Griesser
Anne-Claude
AC
Hertz
Silvana
S
Constantin
Michèle
M
Forni
Michel
M
Blagojevic
Stina
S
Bouchardy
Christine
C
Vlastos
Georges
G
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance