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Perioperative Factors Influencing Outcome in Palliative Cancer Surgery at a Tertiary Cancer Care Institute in Northeast India- A Retrospective Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023
Introduction: Surgical palliation of malignancy is defined best as a procedure used with the primary intention of improving Quality of Life (QoL) or relieving symptoms caused by an advanced malignancy.
Marie Ninu, Barnali Kakati, Dokne Chintey, Sonai Datta Kakati   +3 more
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Hydromorphone for cancer pain [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021
This is an update of the original Cochrane Review first published in Issue 10, 2016. For people with advanced cancer, the prevalence of pain can be as high as 90%. Cancer pain is a distressing symptom that tends to worsen as the disease progresses. Evidence suggests that opioid pharmacotherapy is the most effective of these therapies.
Yan, Li, Jun, Ma, Guijun, Lu, Zhi, Dou, Roger, Knaggs, Jun, Xia, Sai, Zhao, Sitong, Dong, Liqiang, Yang   +8 more
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Quality of life and chronic pain four years after gastrointestinal surgery [PDF]

, 2006
PURPOSE: Little is known about the prevalence of chronic postsurgical pain after gastrointestinal surgery. This study was designed to assess the prevalence of chronic pain and quality of life in a cohort of patients who underwent surgery for benign and ...
Krukowski, Zygmunt H., Bruce, Julie, Bruce, J. (Julie)   +2 more
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Successful Treatment of Refractory Cancer Pain and Depression with Continuous Intrathecal Administration of Dexmedetomidine and Morphine: A Case Report

Pain and Therapy, 2020
Patients who have refractory cancer pain suffer both physically and psychologically. Cancer pain management has improved over the past few decades. However, the treatment of refractory cancer pain is still challenging all over the world.
Ge Huang, Guo Liu, Zhiguo Zhou, Jinfeng Yang, Chen Su   +4 more
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Implementing a telehealth prehabilitation education session for patients preparing for major cancer surgery

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Prehabilitation services assist patients in preparing for surgery, yet access to these services are often limited by geographical factors. Enabling rural and regional patients to access specialist surgical prehabilitation support with the use ...
Jamie L. Waterland, Rani Chahal, Hilmy Ismail, Catherine Sinton, Bernhard Riedel, Jill J. Francis, Linda Denehy   +6 more
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Effects of Low Dose Dexmedetomidine Infusion on Intraoperative Haemodynamic Stress Response in Patients Undergoing Oral Oncological Surgeries: A Randomised Control Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Introduction: Maintaining stable haemodynamics throughout oral and maxillofacial surgeries helps to decrease intraoperative bleeding and thus improves the surgical field avoiding unnecessary damage to vital structures and tissues.
Gifty Susan Philip, GS Shashidhar, Namrata Ranganath   +2 more
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Baska Mask in Patients undergoing Elective Breast Surgeries under General Anaesthesia: An Observational Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Introduction: Supraglottic airway devices are newer safer alternative devices to endotracheal intubation during General Anaesthesia. The Baska mask is a novel third generation Supraglottic Airway Devices (SADs) with an added advantage of silicon self ...
ND Rachana, NS Shruthi, Vijay Mahantesh, CS Sumitha, VB Gowda, Namrata Ranganath   +5 more
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Mechanisms of cancer pain

Frontiers in Pain Research, 2023
Personalised and targeted interventions have revolutionised cancer treatment and dramatically improved survival rates in recent decades. Nonetheless, effective pain management remains a problem for patients diagnosed with cancer, who continue to suffer from the painful side effects of cancer itself, as well as treatments for the disease.
Haroun, Rayan, Wood, John N, Sikandar, Shafaq   +2 more
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Pain in blood cancers

Indian Journal of Palliative Care, 2011
Patients with blood-related cancers (BRC) suffer from a substantial symptom burden, including several pain syndromes sustained by different causes and pathogenetic mechanisms. So, with regard to pain, a multifaceted clinical scenario may be observed in this setting.
Niscola, Pasquale, Tendas, Andrea, Scaramucci, Laura, Giovannini, Marco, De Sanctis, Vitaliana   +4 more
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Symptoms and functional status of patients with disseminated cancer visiting outpatient departments [PDF]

, 1998
Considerable research has focused on pain and other symptoms in terminal cancer patients referred to hospices and palliative care services. These patients differ from Dutch cancer patients in the palliative stage of their disease because the latter are ...
Meyboom-de Jong, B., Otter, R., Sleijfer, DT, Meijler, WJ, Meyboom-de Jong, B, van den Bergh, F.C., Otter, R, Sleijfer, D.T., Schakenraad, J, Schuit, KW, Schuit, K.W., van den Bergh, FCM, Schakenraad, J., Meijler, W.J.   +13 more
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