Testing of the Cancer Thriving and Surviving Breast Cancer Program

Inclusion Criteria

• •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