linking disease and disability implications for cancer care

... except for † scores from the EQ-5D, SF-6D, and HUI2/3 are able to distinguish between cancer severity measures, namely the stage of cancer and ECOG-PS scores The QLQ-C30 and FACT-G appear to perform ... poor Cancer- Specific Instruments For this study, two cancer- specific instruments were used: the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the FACT-G [4,5] The QLQ-C30 dominates cancer clinical trials in Canada and Europe, ... Page of 10 Breast, colorectal, and lung cancer were chosen as they are among the most common cancers diagnosed in British Columbia and Canada [1,2] Recruitment and informed consent were undertaken...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... except for † scores from the EQ-5D, SF-6D, and HUI2/3 are able to distinguish between cancer severity measures, namely the stage of cancer and ECOG-PS scores The QLQ-C30 and FACT-G appear to perform ... poor Cancer- Specific Instruments For this study, two cancer- specific instruments were used: the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the FACT-G [4,5] The QLQ-C30 dominates cancer clinical trials in Canada and Europe, ... Page of 10 Breast, colorectal, and lung cancer were chosen as they are among the most common cancers diagnosed in British Columbia and Canada [1,2] Recruitment and informed consent were undertaken...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... NS Level of care Full care 1.00 Full care, but no CPR 1.23 (1.09 to 1.39) 0.001 Comfort care 1.35 (1.07 to 1.70) 0.010 *Time-independent (age, baseline creatinine, random glucose) and time-dependent ... median, standard deviations and interquartile ranges for continuous variables and frequencies for categorical variables In order to make univariable comparisons between normal, hyponatraemic and hypernatraemic ... (IQR) μmol/L Level of care, number (%) Full care 887 (97) 4799 (95) 2018 (94) Full care, but no CPR 30 (3) 258 (5) 135 (6) Comfort care (0) 11(0) (0) *Results reported as mean (standard deviation)...

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... There is no cancer epidemic except for lung cancer due to smoking (Cancer is actually many diseases, and the causes differ for cancers at different target sites.) Since 1971, overall cancer mortality ... reason for not focusing on the reported incidence of cancer is that the scope and precision of diagnostic information, practices in screening and early detection, and criteria for reporting cancer ... Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory She has published 100 papers on analyses of animal cancer tests and implications for cancer prevention, interspecies extrapolation, and risk...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... prostate cancer, accounting for 31% of new cancers in men, and breast cancer, accounting for 32% of new cancers in women Affecting both men and women, lung and colorectal cancers are the third and ... breast cancer (57%), prostate cancer (48%), and cancer of the head and neck (57%) Medicare pays the largest proportion of expenditures for colorectal cancer (34%), lung cancer (46%), and leukemia ... survival rate for both men and women is 62% Similarly, the five-year relative survival for melanoma is 88% for men and 92% for women 10 The Burden of Cancer in American Adults For most cancers, stage...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... al (1995) Formed by all other non-tobacco- and non-alcohol-related cancers (i.e., after exclusion of cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, liver, larynx, lung and bladder) c Adjusted for age, ... 17.6 Number (and ranking) of male incident and prevalent cancer cases, and fiveyear relative survival ratios for selected sites South-east England, 1992.a 40 22 71 36 Data from Thames Cancer Registry ... liver fluke infestation for liver cancer; anti-smoking campaigns for lung cancer) In contrast, survival was lower for Khon Kaen residents than USA white residents for those cancers whose prognosis...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20

... University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist at the Berkeley National Laboratory 94720 She has published 85 papers on analyses of animal cancer tests and implications for cancer prevention, ... rodents.8 Cancer is due in part to normal aging and increases exponentially with age in both rodents and humans.9 To the extent that the major external risk factors for cancer are diminished, cancer ... National Center for Policy Analysis High consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with a lowered risk of degenerative diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, cataracts and brain...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... lung cancer has the highest incidence rate (age-standardized) of all cancers in males, and breast cancer is the highest incident cancer for females Lung cancer has the highest death rate (age-standardized) ... any cancer in Laos, Mongolia, Taiwan, and Thailand Stomach cancer is the highest incident rate cancer in both Japan and Korea, and the second highest incident cancer in Cambodia, China, and Mongolia ... survive cancer of the colon and rectum than Japanese females 30 The burden of cancer in Asia Mortality rates and mortality-to-incidence ratios for cancer of the colon and rectum by gender and country...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... by concentration, the 70 kDa band disappeared, and two new bands of 45 and 26 kDa were seen on SDS ⁄ PAGE that corresponded to the mycobacterial Rv1771 protein and the freed GST tag, respectively ... host after long (3 h) (lanes and 3) and short (1 h) (lanes and 5) periods of induction with IPTG Fractions obtained with a long period of induction before (lane 2) and after (lane 3) enterokinase ... l-gulono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase are therefore similar to those reported for the plant l-galactonolactone dehydrogenase (Km values equal 3.3 mm and 3.6 lm for l-galactono-1,4-lactone and cytochrome c, respectively)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... ngời bệnh Bệnh tăng sinh limphô liên kết nhiễm sắc thể giới tính (XLP-X link lymphoproliferative disease) lần đợc Barr cs (đôi bệnh đợc gọi hội chứng Duncan) phát gia đình sau đợc Purtilo nghiên ... KSHV sarcoma Kaposi, u limphoma nguyên phát bệnh Castleman (angioimmunoblastic lymphoproliferative disease) Ngoài ra, Đài Loan vừa có kết việc kiểm soát ung th khu trú quan trọng ngời, bệnh ung th...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 00:20

... like age and gender the demand for health and elderly care is affected by dependency, social and housing conditions of the elderly Fiscal and resource constraints in the supply of elderly care also ... labelled as MADL1, MADL2 and FADL1AGE, FADL2AGE and MADL1AGE, MADL2AGE, where F and M are shortcuts for female and male respectively, ADL1 and ADL2 shortcuts for instrumental and personal disabilities ... covered both informal and formal care- givers and respondents were asked to list all of them and name one who helps the most The structure allows a detailed modelling of the informal care giving...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... growth and affect cancer risk For these and other reasons, randomised trials have contributed only modestly to present knowledge about diet and cancer, and this is likely to continue to be true for ... smoking Breast cancer Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world and the most common cancer among women Breast cancer was estimated to account for 1,105,000 cases and 373,000 deaths ... incidence in Scandinavia and among the Inuit6 Overweight/obesity is an established risk factor for cancer of the kidney, and may account for up to 30% of kidney cancers in both men and women100...

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Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 21:56

... Clinical trials T and B cell malignancies Mesothelioma, lung cancer Brain tumors Clinical trials Brain and central nervous system tumors Glioblastoma multiforme Glioblastoma multiforme LMB-2 SS1P ... internalization rate and internalization route can influence RIT efficacy For example, both CD19 and CD22 represent excellent targets for RITs in the selective elimination of mature B cells and associated ... of Health, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research Work on BL22 and moxetumomab pasudotox is supported in part by MedImmune, LLC under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of Minority Health, and professional ... Services Administration, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and it should develop and fund cross-agency efforts in necessary new research ... health care for mental and substance-use conditions As the report notes, the link be- ix x FOREWORD tween mental and substance-use problems and illnesses and general health and health care is...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... years for men and 63 for women (figure 1.1).46 Age-standardised rates of common cancers India Age-standardised rate per 100 000 Per cent of deaths 35 Cardiovascular disease Men Women 25 13 30 Cancer ... 76 years for men and 81 for women (figure 1.1) Chronic diseases account for 84 per cent of all deaths, while infectious diseases, maternal, perinatal, and nutritional conditions account for 11 ... years for men and 80 for women (figure 1.1).46 Chronic diseases account for 84.7 per cent of all deaths, while infectious diseases, maternal, perinatal, and nutritional conditions account for 6.7...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... Association for Cancer Research The Association of Cancer Physicians The British Oncological Association Aims and Scope Cancer is a complex problem The international effort to understand and control ... Catherine Thomson for their questions www.bjcancer.com and comments; Colette Pryor for collating incidence data and Katrina Brown for invaluable support in preparing the report for submission Funding ... Reprints and permissions For detailed information on reprint and permission requests, including instructions for obtaining these online, please visit http://www.nature.com/reprints Alternatively, for...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... reason for not focusing on the reported incidence of cancer is that the scope and precision of diagnostic information, practices in screening and early detection, and criteria for reporting cancer ... vegetables and cancer prevention High consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with a lowered rate of degenerative diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, cataracts, and brain ... data and average exposure or consumption data were both available, and for which human exposure could be chronic for a lifetime For pharmaceuticals the doses are recommended doses, and for workplace...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... structural and process indicators for prenatal and child care providers, expressed as a proportion of criteria mentioned The process quality indices averaged 53 for prenatal care providers and 65 for ... applicable Height for age values available for 1608 observations; weight for age values available for 1785 observations; mean values and their standard errors reported for height for age observations ... National Center for Health Statistics median reference standard and dividing by the standard deviation of the reference distribution for a given age and gender (WHO 1993) The use of a standard growth...

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