Testing of the Cancer Thriving and Surviving Breast Cancer Program

You may be eligible if

• Inclusion breast cancer patients
• female gender
• written informed consent
• aged 18 years or older
• diagnosed with an early stage breast cancer (stage 0, stage I, stage IIA, stage IIB, and stage IIIA breast cancers)
• completed primary therapy (i. e. surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy)
• at the beginning of follow-up care (including long-term endocrine therapy or targeted therapy)
• free of recurrence
• mentally able to participate, assessment of the psychological state performed by the responsible psychologist/psycho-oncologist in the breast center
• treated in the participating breast center
• Inclusion course leaders
• female gender
• written informed consent
• aged 18 years or older
• diagnosed with an early stage breast cancer (stage 0, stage I, stage IIA, stage IIB, and stage IIIA breast cancers)
• \> than 2 years post diagnosis
• free of recurrence
• mentally able to participate, assessment of the psychological state performed by the responsible psychologist/psycho-oncologist in the breast center
• treated in the participating breast center
• willing to participate in a course leaders training
• Exclusion breast cancer patients and course leaders
• participation in another psycho-social intervention study
• known illiteracy (reading and writing difficulties)
• lack of language proficiency (German)
• Inclusion breast care nurses for CTS-BC-CH implementation
• female gender
• employed at breast care center \> 1 year
• participation in 4-days CTS-BC-CH course leader training
• Inclusion breast care nurses for evaluating self-management support practices
• nurses: graduated with a nurses diploma \> 1 year of breast cancer care experience