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Featured Publications
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Adaptation and usability study of the fear of cancer recurrence therapy for parents of survivors of childhood cancer (Parent-FORT)
Celeste Chow, Jeffrey Brinson, Janelle Gibson-Haerle, Brooke K Russell, Lesleigh Abbott, Lauriane Giguère, Amy Givogue, Gregory Guilcher, Lauren Heathcote, Emily Johnson, Kimberly McMillan, Christine Maheu, Wendy Pelletier, Fiona Schulte, Héloïse Sirois-Leclerc, Perri Tutelman, Sophie Lebel
Published: September 2026
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Cycling Through Uncertainty: The Psychological Experiences of Individuals With Lung Cancer Receiving Immunotherapy And/Or Targeted Therapy
Alanna Chu, Emma Kearns, Celeste Chow, Paul Wheatley-Price, Rinat Nissim, Tim Aubry, Sophie Lebel
Published: January 2026
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The State of Psychosocial Oncology Research on Black Canadian Affected by Cancer: A Scoping Review
Ghizlène Sehabi, Wardat Yasmine Sehabi, Emma Kearns, Celeste Holy, Alanna Chu, Lauriane Giguère, Patrick Labelle, Jude Mary Cénat, Sophie Lebel
Published: January 2025
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It is Time to Address Fear of Cancer Recurrence in Family Caregivers: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Randomized Pilot Study of the Family Caregiver Version of the Fear of Recurrence Therapy (FC-FORT)
Jani Lamarche, Rinat Nissim, Jonathan Avery, Jiahui Wong, Christine Maheu, Sylvie. D. Lambert, Andrea M. Laizner, Jennifer Jones, Mary Jane Esplen, Sophie Lebel
Published: January 2025
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Behind the label: a qualitative study of the self-perceptions of individuals with advanced lung cancer receiving immunotherapy or targeted therapy
Alanna Chu, Wardat Yasmine Sehabi, Emma Kearns, Tim Aubry, Rinat Nissim, Sophie Lebel
Published: February 2025
Print and presentations
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Giguère, L., Mutsaers, B., Harris, C., Smith, A. B., Humphris, G. M., Costa, D., ... & FORWARDS. (2024). The Ottawa clinical fear of recurrence instruments: A screener, self‐report, and clinical interview. Psycho‐Oncology, 33(6), e6364. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.6364
Langmuir, T., Chu, A., Sehabi, G., Giguère, L., Lamarche, J., Boudjatat, W., & Lebel, S. (2023). A new landscape in illness uncertainty: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the experience of uncertainty in patients with advanced cancer receiving immunotherapy or targeted therapy. Psycho‐Oncology, 32(3), 356-367. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.6093
Lamarche, J., Sehabi, G., Chu, A., Boudjatat, W., Giguère, L., Langmuir, T., Maheu, C., & Lebel, S. (2023). The development and preliminary implementation evaluation of the Fear Of Recurrence Therapy intervention virtual training workshop. Psychooncology. 2023; 32(5): 810-815. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.6127
Petricone-Westwood D, Galica J, Hales S, Stragapede E, Lebel S. An Investigation of the Effect of Attachment on Distress among Partners of Patients with Ovarian Cancer and Their Relationship with the Cancer Care Providers. Current Oncology. 2021; 28(4):2950-2960. https://doi.org/10.3390/curroncol28040258
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Lamarche, J.,Sehabi, G., Rinat, N., Avery, J., Wong, J., Maheu, C., Lambert, S., Laizner, A., Jones, J., Esplen, M.J., Lebel, S. (2023). Feasibility and Acceptability of the Fear Of Cancer Therapy (FORT) for Family Caregivers: Initial Data From a Pilot Study. Oral presentation presented at the International Psycho-Oncology Society World Congress of Psycho-Oncology (IPOS) in Milan, Italie.
Sehabi, G., Lamarche, J., Chu, A., Langmuir, T., Giguere, L., Boudjatat, W., Maheu, C., & Lebel, S. (2022). eTraining workshop evaluation of the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Therapy (FORT) intervention with international health care professionals: Lessons learned for future implementation efforts. Summary, oral presentation and PowerPoint presented at the International Psycho-Oncology Society World Congress of Psycho-Oncology (IPOS), in Toronto, Canada.
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