geriatric patients with advanced cancer

... agreement or disagreement between patients with advanced disease and their caregivers would be useful, for clinicians and researchers working among people with advanced cancer It would be especially ... of advanced cancer patients, caregivers with higher compared to lower scores of ZBI/positivity, results were derived from logistic regression models and adjusted or not adjusted for primary cancer ... those made by patients or their families? Palliat Med 1993, 7:219-228 McPherson CJ, Wilson KG, Lobchuk MM, Brajtman S: Family caregivers' assessment of symptoms in patients with advanced cancer: concordance...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... remission in 70-80% patients but it fails to get rid of any residual microscopic disease As a consequence, within few months these patients return with recurrent cancer[ 1] In most cases, patients present ... Epithelial ovarian cancer is the fourth major cause of cancer morbidity and mortality in women In spite of recent advances, the prognosis for a woman diagnosed with advanced- stage ovarian cancer has ... ascites of patients with advanced- stage ovarian cancer (As2, As4, As9, As11) were prepared and loaded on 10% SDS-PAGE gels as described in the Methods and Material Blots were probed with mouse...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... regimen for advanced or recurrent gastric cancer In this study, combination therapy with docetaxel and S-1 showed good clinical activity with acceptable toxicity in patients with advanced or ... S-1 combination as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced or recurrent gastric cancer and to analyze prognostic factors in these patients Patients and methods Page of Time to progression ... Eighty-two patients were available for the response evaluation There were no patients showing complete response, 44 (52.4%) patients showing partial response (PR), 37 patients (44.0%) with stable...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... of advanced CRC in an unselected, consecutive series of patients presenting with newly diagnosed disease It reviews and compares the outcomes of patients with advanced bowel cancer treated with ... of treatment in the majority of patients with advanced disease is palliation with a view to optimise quality of life (QoL) and survival time[4] Patients diagnosed with Stage IV disease CRC present ... operated patients, stoma rates in operated patients and the indications for surgery in emergency patients Patients deemed surgically incurable at presentation were studied Patients with metastatic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... of patients with locally advanced cervical cancer treated by concurrent radiation therapy and chemotherapy using either weekly Cisplatin or weekly paclitaxel Methods and materials Patients Patients ... 15 patients) concurrently with radiotherapy Page of Chemotherapy Patients were randomized into two groups: group treated with weekly cisplatin and group treated with weekly paclitaxel Group I patients ... in CTRT for patients with advanced cervical carcinoma Although many prospective studies had shown that CTRT with cisplatin-based chemotherapy clearly improve the outcome of patients with carcinoma...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... to 14 months in patients with multiple locations, 13 months with metastases to the skeletal system, 21 months with liver metastases, months with brain metastases and 15 months with skin metastases ... mortality in patients with advanced HNSCC The treatment regime used in our patients was based on the prospective and multicentre trial on radiotherapy in advanced head and neck cancer initially ... in patients with advanced head and neck carcinomas and thereby survival So stage IV patients might be diagnosed with DM and this might become a relevant problem in achieving long-term control Patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Inpatients Outpatients Healthy Controls Inpatients Outpatients Healthy Controls Figure PSQI-measured sleep quality differences between inpatients, outpatients and healthy controls Lung cancer patients ... circadian function among advanced lung cancer patients The primary goal of the study is to determine whether and how the circadian organization of cancer patients is affected by the cancer- bearing state ... cancer patients compared to population-based controls Wake Period Actigraphic Parameters All patients Sleep Period Population controls All patients By Site Population controls Inpatients Outpatients...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... report: Human studies (5 breast cancer, colorectal cancer) 34 Animal exposure (15 breast cancer, 19 colorectal cancer) 25 Human cell lines (15 breast cancer, 10 colorectal cancer) Combination [animal/cell ... interventions may help reduce cancer risks in the general population Breast Cancer According to the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), breast cancer is the most common cancer among women.46 In 2009, ... ratio (OR) of risk of breast cancer associated with alcohol consumption.52 13 Colorectal Cancer Of the estimated 75,590 men and 71,380 women diagnosed with colorectal cancer, 49,920 men and women...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... freezing and we had better consider young patients with cervical cancer for oocytes conservative procedure and then pregnancy with surrogate uterus Endometrial Cancer Endometrial carcinoma is the most ... Gotlieb et al., 2003) Ovarian Cancer Ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecological cancer (Gonzalez-Lira et al., 1997) The incidence gradually rises with old age, with its peak near the seventh ... abdominal hysterectomy in patients with tumor size>4cm and radical abdominal trachelectomy in one with tumor size 2-4 cm who wish to preserve 1888 Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, Vol...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... young person with cancer, see the NCI booklet, Young People With Cancer Your friends and family members may also want to see the NCI booklet, When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer Above all ... • Taking Time: Support for People With Cancer • Thinking About Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Guide for People With Cancer • When Your Parent Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens • When Someone ... (1-800-422-6237) to speak with an information specialist Coping With Advanced Cancer “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... for patients with stage 1A lung cancer and 38-65% for patients with stage 1B lung cancer Surgery gives the highest chance of cure for patients with stage I and II lung cancer D 6.2.2 Patients with ... MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER 13.3 SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT Patients with lung cancer experience more symptom distress than other types of cancer patient.322 Patients with lung cancer frequently ... MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER 9.7 CONSOLIDATION THORACIC RADIOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH LIMITED SCLC DISEASE Consolidation thoracic radiotherapy improves survival in patients with limited...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... prognostic indicators in patients without distant metastatic disease Patients in early stages are considered candidates for cure by surgery However, 50% of gastric cancer patients suffer from tumor ... Figure with levels measured in the peripheral patients gene TNM stage I to IV gastric cancer blood of 70 Survivin Survivin gene levels measured in the peripheral blood of 70 patients with TNM ... H, Ngan CY, Monden M: Cancer cells survive with survivin Cancer Sci 2008, 99:1709-1714 Altieri DC: Survivin, cancer networks and pathway-directed drug discovery Nat Rev Cancer 2008, 8:61-70 Wang...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... from patients with advanced ESCC than in sera from patients with early stage disease (P < 0.001) and that in the patients with clinical stage III-IV and N1 subgroup, CDC25B-Abs seronegative patients ... sera from 50% of patients with ESCC[11] Serum anti-myomegalin antibodies were present in 47% of patients with ESCC [8] Our previous study showed that 36.3% of ESCC patients with autoantibody ... significant relationship with the prognosis of patients with advanced ESCC (P = 0.001) (Table 3); however, the difference between CDC25B-seropositive patients and CDC25B-seronegative patients was not...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... responses in this population of patients with more advanced metastatic melanoma The present study was undertaken to investigate the antitumor activity of IDD-3 in patients with metastatic melanoma limited ... Number of patients N 243 Number of doses administered per patient: Median 27-85 (2-14) 26 (79%) Number of patients with ≥ doses (w0 to w22) 60 Range Median (range) Number of patients with ≥ doses ... discriminate groups of patients: a) patients with boosted/induced immune responses post-treatment to a single pool or multiple pools of TAA-derived peptides (n = 19, 66%); b) patients with stable immune...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... from ICU admission in patients treated surgically for esophageal cancer Methods Patients and sample collection 27 patients who underwent radical surgery for esophageal cancer at Tottori University ... metallopeptidase (MMP9), which reflects the activity of neutrophils and correlates with survival in patients with esophageal cancer [12-14]; early growth response (EGR1), as a transcriptional regulator ... in patients without encephalopathy upon admission [10,11] In the present study, we examined 11 proinflammatory genes in patients receiving therapy in the ICU following surgery for esophageal cancer: ...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... [11] Previous studies of HRQL that combined data from patients with colorectal cancer and patients with other diagnoses such as breast or lung cancer [12-14] may have failed to identify relationships ... side-effects specific to patients with colorectal cancer Furthermore, previous research tends to focus on the HRQL of cancer patients while in treatment [15] or the HRQL of cancer survivors several ... quality of cancer care Thus, another potential limitation of our study is an inflated type I error The predictors of HRQL in patients with colorectal cancer may differ from those in patients with other...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Cell viability (%) A Without ascites With ascites * Without ascites With ascites * * * * * 10 TRAIL (ng/ml) 25 10 TRAIL (ng/ml) 25 Cell viability (%) 318A cells Without ascites With ascites * * 10 ... Table S1 Forty four fluids originated from patients with ovarian cancer and 10 were considered benign Among malignant ascites, most were from patients with serous adenocarcinoma (60%) The protection ... (a) CaOV3 cells were pre-incubated for h with OVC509 and OVC361 ascites (10% v/v) obtained from women with advanced serous ovarian cancer and treated with TRAIL (10 ng/ml) for 48 h Cell viability...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... rectal cancer (radiotherapy group): Preoperative radiotherapy delivered 45 grays in 25 fractions (five weeks) with or without concomitant fluoropyrimidine Measures and data collection procedure Patients ... courses of chemotherapy, 17 patients perceived their health as improved: 12 patients were slightly better, moderately better and only patients were much better All patients except two had previous ... primary tumor before chemotherapy Seven patients received adjuvant chemotherapy and 10 patients were treated for metastatic disease In these patients with improved health status, no difference...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... population of advanced cancer patients with pain The results on prevalence are going to be presented elsewhere Patients were included if they had a diagnosis of cancer, had cancer- related chronic ... consecutive cancer patients with cancer- related chronic pain (Table 1) was enrolled About half of them were males, 29% had a cancer of the GI-tract, and 75% had a metastatic disease Most patients ... results should be considered within the limits of the study methods which required the assessment of previous 24 hours pain in a population of advanced cancer patients with no clinically evident...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... young patient cancers were sporadic with a greater frequency in the colon compared with older patients Synchronous cancers were to be found exclusively in young patients Hence, young patients of ... young with older patients with colorectal cancer (median 66 years, range -50 to 89 years) did not show a difference in gender distribution, duration of symptoms and in the proportion of patients with ... is shown in Table Rectal cancer comprised the majority in the young and in older patients In these young patients with fifty three index cancers and four synchronous cancers, forty eight (84%)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22