... capacity, and support elderlypatients in planning for incapacity ☐☐ Train staff and providers on recognizing the signs of elder abuse and neglect, and mandated reporting of suspected abuse For resources ... convenient and more affordable for some patients, this method of dispensing eliminates the opportunity to interact directly with a pharmacist • Transportation and accessibility issues — Elderlypatients ... memorial services for deceased patients to honor the relationship between patientsand professional staff, and offer space for providers and staff to process feelings about patients who have...
... it very convenient for sick /elderly patients, reduces health care costs and frees up resources for other patients All stage T1-2, N0 lungcancer patients, medically unfit for surgery, received ... Materials and methods The use of accelerated hypofractionated radiation therapy is an attractive option forpatientswith early stage nonsmall cell lungcancer (NSCLC) who are not surgical candidates ... the surviving patientsand 21 months (range: – 41 months) for the whole group Eighteen patients had died, but only 10 due to lungcancer progression Sixteen patients developed some form of recurrent...
... hyperfractionated and accelerated radiotherapy and concurrent chemotherapy with carboplatin and 5fluorouracil: updated results of a randomized multicentric trial in advanced head -and- neck cancer Int ... Hyperfractionated-accelerated radiotherapy with concurrent platinum-based chemotherapy is an effective treatment option and offers a chance for long-term survival forpatientswith primarily inoperable, ... New and optimized treatment methods increase loco-regional tumor control in patientswith advanced head and neck carcinomas and thereby survival So stage IV patients might be diagnosed with DM and...
... radiotherapy with or without chemoLocal-recurrence free interval for 131 patients treated with accelerated high-dose radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy for the group treated with radiotherapy ... radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy Figure with sequential chemotherapy or without chemotherapy accelerated radiotherapy with concomitant with high-dose Actuarial overall survival of patients ... 131 patients was treated with high-dose radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy In 56 cases the radiotherapy was combined with concomitant cisplatin and in 26 cases with courses of neo-adjuvant...
... included mixed groups of patientswith primary small or non-small cell lungcancer (NSCLC) andlung metastases, and did not compare VOC levels in lungcancerpatientswith those in asymptomatic ... Union Against Cancer TNM staging system [12], and all of the patients were classified as having stage Ia, Ib and IIa lungcancer None of the patients received radiation or chemotherapy before surgery ... compounds in exhaled air from patientswithlungcancer Clin Chem 1985, 31:1278-1282 Humphrey LL, Teutsch S, Johnson M, U.S Preventive Services Task Force: Lungcancer screening with sputum cytologic...
... 5-fluorouracil) adjuvant chemotherapy were administered to 89 of patients (99%) and 66 patients (73%) received adjuvant endocrine therapyfor years One patient only received hormonal therapy Sixty-six patients ... Early BreastCancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group (EBCTCG): Effects of chemotherapy and hormonal therapyfor early breastcancer on recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised ... factor for disease-free survival in patientswithbreastcancer Am J Clin Oncol 2004, 27:304-306 15 Truong PT, Olivotto IA, Kader HA, et al: Selecting breastcancerpatientswith T1-T2 tumors and...
... survival in elderlypatientswith AML Probability of overall survival in elderlypatientswith AML undergoing induction chemotherapy of homoharringtonine and cytarabine Page of (page number not for citation ... are comparable with these and other reported results in elderlypatientswith AML [15-21] The response rates of HA are also comparable with the data of elderlypatients treated with DA (daunorubicin ... regimen with less toxicity in elderlypatientswith AML Furthermore, of the patientswith AML secondary to MDS achieved CR, suggesting HA regimen is also effective in elderlypatientswith AML...
... acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, and a majority of solid tumors including glioblastoma, lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, ... assay was performed Autologous EB-virus transformed B-lymphoblastoid cell line (B-LCL) cells pulsed with WT1 peptides were labeled with 10 μM CFSE, and were used as target cells for the cytotoxicity ... for 30 and then co-cultured with effector cells for the cytotoxicity assay RESULTS Clinical efficacy of WT1 peptide vaccination A 51 year-old male with CML in chronic phase had been treated with...
... orientation and mobility training Virgili and Rubin(25) searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials Medline, Embase, and LILACS up to September 2002 for randomized and quasi-randomized ... codes beginning with Page the prefix 369.xx1) and are thus potential candidates for vision rehabilitation services This represents approximately 3.7% and 4.9% of the total white and black Medicare-aged ... to drive, individuals with this visual acuity rarely suffer significant reductions in their ability to perform other functions and are, therefore, unlikely to be candidates for vision rehabilitation...
... this table All patients had relatively good performance status (PS) and had previously undergone treatments (Tx), for example surgery (S), chemotherapy (C), and radiation therapy (R) patients had ... treated patientsand analyzed for their functions Methods Patients All patients were diagnosed to have stage-IV melanoma based on the American Joint Commission on Cancer staging system and had ... vaccine in a phase I trial of patientswith melanoma Cancer Immunity 2009, 9:5 38 Kawakami Y: New cancertherapy by immunomanipulation: development of immunotherapy for human melanoma as a model...
... were 0.424 for disease and physical; 0.515 for physical and social; 0.777 for social and psychological; and 0.612 for psychological and satisfaction Criterion validity of the short-form of BPH-QLS ... the following kinds of persons: patientswith BPH and those without BPH; patientswith different degree of symptoms; in -patients, out -patients, and community patients [17] Conclusion This study ... Outpatients and community-based patients had no significant difference in score for the physical and social domain, while inpatients had a lower score For the satisfaction domain, outpatients and...
... stroke patients has not yet been studied We investigated the effects of V-shaped and conventional seats in reclining wheelchairs on the forward sliding and sitting pressure of stroke patientswith ... with V-shaped seats and between -2 and 94 mm in the conventional wheelchairs The ranges of SS were between -8 and 35 mm in the wheelchairs with V-shape seats and between and 120 mm in the conventional ... the patients often have poor trunk control and poor sitting tolerance Reclining wheelchairs are commonly used for non-ambulatory stroke patientswith flaccid hemiplegia in hospital settings and...
... data on thrombus were available for 1622 and 1619 patients, respectively; and data on stenosis and the minimal luminal diameter were available for 1560 and 1559 patients, respectively CI denotes ... grade were available for 1640 patients in the clopidogrel group and 1634 patients in the placebo group; data on TIMI myocardial-perfusion grade were available for 1585 and 1596 patients, respectively; ... combined pidogrel to aspirin and fibrinolytic therapyfor my- with aspirin.17 Clopidogrel has been shown to benocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation Treat- efit patientswith documented atherosclerosis...
... g/dl for albumin, 34 IU/L for AST, 36 IU/L for ALT 94 IU/L ALK-P, 1.3 mg/dl for total bilirubin, 21 mg/dl for BUN, and 15 ng/ml for AFP Recurrence After being discharged from the hospital, patients ... 31.2%, and 23.9%; and 3-, 5-, and 10-year overall survival (OS) rates for all the patients were 59.0%, 46.4%, and 27.7% Hospital mortality was 5.6% When the patients were further divided into the patients ... into the patientswith the tumors within UCSF or beyond UCSF criteria, the 3-, 5- and 10-year overall survival rates were 71.3%, 57.9% and 34.4% for the patientswith tumors within UCSF criteria...
... Kaplan-Meier curves for disease-specific survival for the whole cohort of elderlypatients (A), andfor ductal adenocarcinoma elderlypatients stratified for ductal adenocarcinoma patients aged
... combination as a first-line treatment forpatientswith advanced or recurrent gastric cancerand to analyze prognostic factors in these patientsPatientsand methods Page of Time to progression ... first-line regimen for advanced or recurrent gastric cancer In this study, combination therapywith docetaxel and S-1 showed good clinical activity with acceptable toxicity in patientswith advanced ... standard therapyforpatientswith advanced or recurrent gastric cancer In conclusion, our retrospective study demonstrated that the docetaxel and S-1 combination has good clinical activity with...
... survival rate forpatients without lymph node metastases (N-) andforpatientswith lymph node metastases (N+) The majority of patients (12/22) received SRS treatment as outpatients with curative ... primary cancer among patientswith head and neck cancers: A pooled analysis of 13 cancer registries Int J Cancer 2008, 123:2390-2396 Forastiere A, Koch W, Trotti A, Sidransky D: Head and neck cancer ... CyberKnife for advanced, recurrent head and neck carcinoma lesions both withand without lymph node metastases Methods Between April 2006 and July 2007, 22 patientswith advanced, recurrent head and...
... analyzed 54 patientswith stage II and III MPM, and the authors reported accuracy of 77% for CT, 86% for PET, 80% for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and 100% for PET-CT in patientswith stage ... disease, and accuracy of 75% for CT, 83% for PET, 90% for MRI, and 100% for PET-CT in patientswith stage III disease [18] To our knowledge, no studies address the role of PET-CTbased RTP in patients ... toxicity concerns Linden et al treated 47 MPM patientswith a dose of 40 Gy in 20 fractions withand without chemotherapy and they informed that all of patients experienced radiation induced pulmonary...
... hospital He also drafted and edited the manuscript and obtained the patient’s consent and perspective AZ searched for previous relevant cases in the literature and reviewed and edited the manuscript ... underwent a left lower lung lobectomy The histopathological examination showed a typical carcinoid tumor without mitotic figures or necrosis andwith positive immunohistochemical stains for synaptophysin, ... tumor tested positive for SSTR types 2A and 2B and negative for SSTR types 1, 3, 4, and The samples taken from the lymph node metastases were inadequate for SSTR immunohistochemistry Our patient’s...
... game on the one hand, and being overly supportive and protective on the other hand is considered to be difficult with regard to these patients [13,27] Studies reveal that patientsand care providers ... accept and to cope withand it often leads to ineffective professional behaviour [22,23] On the one hand, while balancing between autonomy and safety of the patient, nurses easily feel forced and ... Collaborative Care Program forpatientswith a severe borderline or NOS personality disorder in comparison with Care as Usual (CAU) from the perspective of patients, their informal carers and nurses; (2)...