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Featured Publications

  • 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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  • Artistic design of a pair of lungs composed of delicate flowers.

    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

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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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Print and presentations

  • 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

  • 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.