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Glioblastoma care in the elderly [PDF]

Cancer, 2015
Glioblastoma is common among elderly patients, a group in which comorbidities and a poor prognosis raise important considerations when designing neuro‐oncologic care. Although the standard of care for nonelderly patients with glioblastoma includes maximal safe surgical resection followed by radiotherapy with concurrent and adjuvant temozolomide, the ...
Justin T, Jordan, Elizabeth R, Gerstner, Tracy T, Batchelor, Daniel P, Cahill, Scott R, Plotkin   +4 more
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The Efficacy and Safety of Bevacizumab/Irinotecan/Temozolomide (BIT) for Relapsed/Refractory Neuroblastoma: The UK Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group Experience

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with high‐risk neuroblastoma who either are refractory to induction chemotherapy or relapse following multi‐modal treatment have a dismal prognosis. Based on data from the BEACON trial, since 2021 the UK national guidelines recommend bevacizumab, irinotecan, and temozolomide (BIT) for patients with relapsed/refractory ...
Thomas J. Jackson, Menna Shamma, Upeka Senanayake, Shaimaa Sahmoud, Kathleen Duffin, Victoria Howard, David King, Ayesha Fathani, Blanche Lumb, Andrei Pobischan, Irum Latif Memon, Monzir Ahmed, Rhian Thomas, Gerard Millen, Yasmeen Alomari, Sucheta Vaidya, Lynley V. Marshall, Sally L. George, Ramya Ramanujachar, Juliet Gray, Paola Angelini   +20 more
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Early Delirium Assessment for Hospitalized Older People in Indonesia: a Systematic Review [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Due to the increasing risk of getting co-morbidity and frailty, older people tend to be prone to hospitalization. Hospitalization in older people brings many adverse effects.
Chen, C. (Ching-Min), Saifullah, A. D. (Azam)   +1 more
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Implementing Health‐Related Quality of Life Assessment in Pediatric Oncology: A Feasibility Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background There is growing interest in embedding health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment and patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) within clinical cancer care. This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of implementing an electronic PROM (ePROM) platform to measure HRQoL in children with cancer ...
Mikaela Doig, Sophie Jessop, Jordan R. Hansford, Hien Le, Matthew O'Connor, Peter Gorayski, Andrew Cunningham, Amanda Hutchinson, Victoria Bedford, Eva Bezak, Nayana Parange, Kelly Skelton, Timothy Price, Michala Short   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Underlying goals of advance care planning (ACP): a qualitative analysis of the literature

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background Since the introduction of the concept of advance care planning (ACP), many studies have been conducted exploring beneficial effects. These studies show a heterogeneity in clinical endpoints, which reflects diversity of goals connected to ACP ...
Nienke Fleuren, Marja F. I. A. Depla, Daisy J. A. Janssen, Martijn Huisman, Cees M. P. M. Hertogh   +4 more
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Elderly Care Centre

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2016
The demand for elderly centre has increased tremendously abreast with the world demographic change as the number of senior citizens rose in the 21st century. This has become one of the most crucial problems of today's era. As the world progress into modernity, more and more people are occupied with daily work causing the senior citizens to lose the ...
Aliani Wagiman, Hazrina Haja Bava Mohidin, Alice Sabrina Ismail   +2 more
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A model for supply of informal care to elderly parents [PDF]

This paper presents a model of informal care to parents. We assume that the child participates in the labour market and gains in utility from consumption and leisure.
Fevang, Elisabeth, Kverndokk, Snorre, Røed, Knut   +2 more
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Which European model for elderly care? Equity and cost-effectiveness in home based care in three European countries [PDF]

Long term care for the elderly is growing apace in developed economies. As growth is forcing change in existing production and delivery systems of elderly care services, the question arises as to how different systems compare in terms of cost ...
Francesca Bettio, Giovanni Solinas
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Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez, Jill O. Robinson, Wendy A. Allen‐Rhoades, Hadley S. Smith, Isabel Canfield, Rebecca L. Hsu, Sarah R. Scollon, Lauren R. Desrosiers‐Battu, Nicole M. Schneider, Frank Y. Lin, Donald Williams Parsons, Sharon E. Plon, Mary A. Majumder, Janet Malek, Amy L. McGuire   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors affecting patient recruitment to trials: qualitative research in general practice

BJGP Open, 2020
Background: Patient recruitment to clinical research is often challenging and, when inadequate, can result in delayed or underpowered studies. Recruitment problems were experienced during a study of women with heavy menstrual bleeding in general practice
Marian J van den Brink, Monique Hummel, Marrit Lemstra, Marjolein Y Berger, Janny H Dekker, Marco H Blanker   +5 more
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