Characteristics of Indigenous patients with cancer and their families who participated in a sharing circle (n = 14)
Characteristic | No. of participants |
---|---|
Sex | |
Male | 4 |
Female | 10 |
Who attended | |
Patients | 9 |
Family members | 5 |
Geographical location | |
Reserve | 2 |
Rural | 4 |
Small urban | 6 |
Urban | 2 |
Types of cancer*† | |
Bladder | 1 |
Breast | 4 |
Cervical | 1 |
Colon | 1 |
Ovarian | 1 |
Uterine | 1 |
Unknown | 1 |
Illness trajectory† | |
Remission or monitoring | 5 |
Undergoing active treatments | 1 |
Recurrence | 3 |
Time since diagnosis, yr† | |
< 5 | 4 |
5–10 | 2 |
> 10 | 2 |
Unknown | 1 |