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Peter Herschbach is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research is primarily focused on the field of Medicine, with specific attention to Oncology, General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Surgery.

The main topics covered in their work include cancer survivorship and care, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, patient-provider communication in healthcare, palliative care and end-of-life issues, family support in illness, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, and cancer genomics and diagnostics.

Peter Herschbach has coauthored with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Theresia Pichler
  • Volker Heinemann
  • Ute Goerling
  • Andreas Dinkel
  • Amy Rohrmoser

Their research has been published in various venues with multiple publications in:

  • Forum
  • Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
  • Surgical Infections
  • Klinische Pädiatrie
  • Supportive Care in Cancer

Recent papers authored by Peter Herschbach include:

  • Peri-Prosthetic Joint Infection of the Knee Causes High Levels of Psychosocial Distress: A Prospective Cohort Study, 2020, Surgical Infections
  • Information, communication, and cancer patients' trust in the physician: what challenges do we have to face in an era of precision cancer medicine?, 2020, Supportive Care in Cancer
  • Psychometric Properties of the Fear of Progression Questionnaire for Children (FoP-Q-SF/C), 2020, Klinische Pädiatrie
  • Quality of Life and Satisfaction in Transgender Men After Phalloplasty in a Retrospective Study, 2021, Annals of Plastic Surgery
  • Best Practice: psychoonkologisches Screening an Comprehensive Cancer Centers, 2021, Forum

Best Publications

  • Life satisfaction decreases during adolescence

    Lutz Goldbeck;Tim G. Schmitz;Tanja Besier;Peter Herschbach

  • Fear of cancer progression and cancer-related intrusive cognitions in breast cancer survivors.

    Anja Mehnert;Petra Berg;Gerhard Henrich;Peter Herschbach

  • Questions on Life Satisfaction (FLZM) - A Short Questionnaire for Assessing Subjective Quality of Life

    Gerhard Henrich;Peter Herschbach

  • [Fear of progression in breast cancer patients--validation of the short form of the Fear of Progression Questionnaire (FoP-Q-SF)].

    Anja Mehnert;Peter Herschbach;Petra Berg;Gerhard Henrich

  • Fear of progression in chronic diseases. Psychometric properties of the Fear of Progression Questionnaire

    Peter Herschbach;Petra Berg;Andrea Dankert;Gabriele Duran

  • Psychological problems of cancer patients: a cancer distress screening with a cancer-specific questionnaire

    P Herschbach;M Keller;L Knight;T Brandl

  • Gender and age differences in domain-specific life satisfaction and the impact of depressive and anxiety symptoms: a general population survey from Germany.

    Isolde Daig;Peter Herschbach;Anja Lehmann;Nina Knoll

  • Personality traits and psychosocial stress: quality of life over 2 years following breast cancer diagnosis and psychological impact factors.

    Kristin Härtl;Jutta Engel;Peter Herschbach;Hans Reinecker

  • Job stress and job satisfaction of physicians, radiographers, nurses and physicists working in radiotherapy: a multicenter analysis by the DEGRO Quality of Life Work Group.

    Susanne Sehlen;Dirk Vordermark;Christof Schäfer;Peter Herschbach

  • Group Psychotherapy of Dysfunctional Fear of Progression in Patients with Chronic Arthritis or Cancer

    Peter Herschbach;Petra Berg;Sabine Waadt;Gabriele Duran

  • Long-Term Improvement of Quality of Life During Growth Hormone (GH) Replacement Therapy in Adults with GH Deficiency, as Measured by Questions on Life Satisfaction-Hypopituitarism (QLS-H)

    Myriam Rosilio;Werner F. Blum;David J. Edwards;Elena P. Shavrikova

  • Evaluation of two group therapies to reduce fear of progression in cancer patients.

    Peter Herschbach;Katrin Book;Andreas Dinkel;Petra Berg

  • Cancer Distress Reduction with a Couple-Based Skills Training: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Nina Heinrichs;Tanja Zimmermann;Birgit Huber;Peter Herschbach

  • Psychological factors in functional gastrointestinal disorders: characteristics of the disorder or of the illness behavior?

    P Herschbach;G Henrich;M von Rad

  • Fear of progression.

    Peter Herschbach;Andreas Dinkel

  • Quality of Life and Patient Satisfaction Following Male-to-Female Sex Reassignment Surgery.

    Nikolaos A. Papadopulos;Nikolaos A. Papadopulos;Jean-Daniel Lellé;Dmitry Zavlin;Peter Herschbach

  • Chemotherapy and Post-traumatic Stress in the Causation of Cognitive Dysfunction in Breast Cancer Patients.

    Kerstin Hermelink;Markus Bühner;Philipp Sckopke;Franziska Neufeld

  • Das „Zufriedenheitsparadox” in der Lebensqualitätsforschung - Wovon hängt unser Wohlbefinden ab? -

    Peter Herschbach

  • Elucidating Pretreatment Cognitive Impairment in Breast Cancer Patients: The Impact of Cancer-Related Post-Traumatic Stress

    Kerstin Hermelink;Varinka Voigt;Judith Kaste;Franziska Neufeld

  • Decreased quality of life in adult patients with growth hormone deficiency compared with general populations using the new, validated, self-weighted questionnaire, questions on life satisfaction hypopituitarism module.

    Werner F. Blum;Elena P. Shavrikova;David J. Edwards;Myriam Rosilio

  • Mobile Health in Oncology: A Patient Survey About App-Assisted Cancer Care.

    Kerstin Anne Kessel;Marco Me Vogel;Carmen Kessel;Henning Bier

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Döpfner
Manfred Döpfner University of Cologne
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier University of Freiburg
Nadia Harbeck
Nadia Harbeck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Anja Mehnert
Anja Mehnert Leipzig University
Lutz Goldbeck
Lutz Goldbeck University of Ulm
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Markus Bühner
Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Uwe Koch
Uwe Koch Universität Hamburg
Daniel W. Russell
Daniel W. Russell Iowa State University
Stephan Zipfel
Stephan Zipfel University of Tübingen

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