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DIFR3CT: Latent Diffusion for Probabilistic 3D CT Reconstruction from Few Planar X-Rays [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Computed Tomography (CT) scans are the standard-of-care for the visualization and diagnosis of many clinical ailments, and are needed for the treatment planning of external beam radiotherapy. Unfortunately, the availability of CT scanners in low- and mid-resource settings is highly variable.
arxiv  

‘Balancing Challenges and Personal Resources’: A Qualitative Study of Women's Experiences of Arm Impairment After Axillary Surgery for Breast Cancer

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore how women previously treated for breast cancer experience living with arm impairment after axillary surgery. Design Descriptive qualitative study. The inductive starting point for the analysis was followed by a deductive approach as the categories were related to the components of the sense of coherence framework. Methods Twenty‐
Matilda Appelgren   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should young age be a contra-indication to breast conservation treatment in Chinese women? Twelve-year experience from a public cancer centre in Hong Kong [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Objective: It has been proposed that young women should not be treated by breast conservation treatment because of a higher risk of local recurrences and worse survival.
Choi, CW   +4 more
core  

An Evaluative Study of a Nurse‐Led Surgical Information Initiative for Gender Diverse Individuals Seeking Genital Surgery

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To evaluate the impact of nurse‐led one‐on‐one psychoeducation sessions on gender diverse individuals seeking gender‐affirming genital surgery. Design A quasi‐experimental, pre‐ and post‐test research design was employed to examine the impact of a nurse‐led initiative on improving patients self‐perceived knowledge and confidence pertaining
Seán Kearns   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Point-of-care genetic counselling : should family physicians counsel patients on genetic testing and screening? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Family medicine has come of age, with family doctors/general practitioners taking on greater roles and responsibilities and health care systems recognizing the important role of primary care. It is in this scenario that the question of pre- and post-
Mallia, Pierre
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Decision Regret About Treatment Amongst Women With Early Breast Cancer: An Integrative Review

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To synthesise evidence on decision regret about treatment amongst women with early breast cancer, including (1) the type of treatment related to decision regret, (2) the level of decision regret, and (3) factors associated with decision regret. Design Integrative review.
Jing Liu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cancer de mama: cirugía conservadora vs mastectomia radical Breast cancer: conservative surgery versus radical mastectomy

open access: yesRevista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, 2005
Se realizó un estudio retrospectivo y comparativo tomando como universo 530 pacientes portadoras de cáncer de mama en las etapas I y II de la enfermedad, operadas en el servicio de Cirugía General del Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado"
Gilberto Cabrera Nogueira   +2 more
doaj  

Breast cancer in Malta : a comparative study between the year 2000 and 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Introduction: During the last decade, Malta experienced the introduction of a number of programmes and initiatives aiming to raise risk and cancer awareness on breast cancer.
Caruana Dingli, Gordon, Caruana, Mandy
core  

Patients' Experiences of Day Surgery: A Qualitative Systematic Review

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To examine how patients experience day surgery. Design Systematic review using Thomas and Harden's framework for synthesis and analysed through Ricoeur's theory of interpretation. Methods and Data Sources Systematic searches in MEDLINE, CINAHL and EMBASE (September 2023) identified qualitative studies focusing on patients' lived ...
Josephine Ransborg Sig   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural variation in generated health reports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
We present a natural language generator that produces a range of medical reports on the clinical histories of cancer patients, and discuss the problem of conceptual restatement in generating various textual views of the same conceptual content.
Hallett, Catalina, Scott, Donia
core   +1 more source

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