Ph.D., RN, Professor Mika Miyashita
Developing a care to support people living with cancer is an important social challenge. Palliative care nursing is an academic discipline that creates nursing care to prevent and alleviate physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering for people of all ages who have experienced life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and their families, and to support their lives to the end life. We contribute to the maintenance and improvement of quality of life through the development and social implementation of nursing care that prevents and alleviates holistic suffering of cancer survivors.
Research and Education
Our research interests focus on prevention and alleviating the suffering experienced by cancer survivors. Recently, we have conducted cross-sectional survey, scale development, longitudinal survey, and intervention studies focusing on cancer and cancer therapy-related cognitive impairment. We are also conducting international collaborative research with researchers in the United States in order to making world-class academic achievements.
As for education, we provide lectures and practical training in palliative care nursing and gerontological nursing at the undergraduate level, and promote researchers specializing in palliative care nursing and oncology nursing at the graduate course. In addition, the Advanced Practice Researcher Training Program in the Master’s Program facilitates students to develop highly knowledge and skills in oncology nursing and supports students in acquiring competencies of clinical nurse specialist.
1) Cognitive Training Equipment
2) Cognitive Training: Playing the cognitive game while pedaling
Recent Publications
- Myers JS, Pathak HB, He J, Ghosh A, Puri RV, Asakura Y, Miyashita M. Combined Exercise and Game-based Cognitive Training Intervention: Correlative Pilot Study of Neurotrophic and Inflammatory Biomarkers for Women with Breast. Cancer Nurs. 2024;47(3):198-206. DOI10.1097/NCC.0000000000001175
- Shimada K, Tsuneto S. Novel method for predicting nonvisible symptoms using machine learning in cancer palliative care. Sci Rep, 2023;13(1):12088. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39119-0.
- Tenda Y, Miyashita M, Yamada A, Shimizu C, Nakayama K, Honma N, Taira N, Sawaki M. Older patients’ experience of living with cognitive impairment related to hormone therapy for breast cancer: A qualitative study. Eur J Oncol Nurs. 2022 Apr;57:102115. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2022.102115.
- Myers JS, Von Ah D, He J, Kim J, Miyashita M, Asakura Y, Williams K. Psycholinguistic Assessment of Cognitive Function in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Secondary Analysis. Oncol Nurs Forum. 2022;49(6):565-570. doi: 10.1188/22.ONF.565-570.
- Miyashita M, Tsukamoto N, Hashimoto M, Kajiwara K, Kako J, Okamura H. Validation of the Japanese Version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognitive Function Version 3. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020;59(1):139-146. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.09.027.
Laboratory
Ph.D., RN, Professor: Mika Miyashita
Associate Professor: Kazuki shimada
Assistant Professor: Takako Kuroda
Email: miyashita.mika.3w(at)kyoto-u.ac.jp
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URL: https://oncol.hs.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/