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Palliative surgery

Practical oncology, 2023
Palliative surgery is defined as surgery for symptoms attributable to an advanced or incurable malignancy or symptoms due to malignancy treatment. Palliative surgery is a frequent occurrence at cancer centers and represents almost a quarter of a surgical oncologist’s practice.
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Pediatric palliative care and surgery [PDF]

Annals of Palliative Medicine, 2022
Care for pediatric patients with serious or potentially life-limiting illness involves the interplay of multiple medical and surgical teams within the hospital. Pediatric surgeons are capable of performing procedures that can improve the quality of life for children facing serious illness, but which also carry the potential for significant risk and ...
Katherine C, Ott, Teresa M, Vente, Timothy B, Lautz, Elisha D, Waldman   +3 more
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The efficacy of prophylactic prochlorperazine injections at the initiation of opioid injections in preventing opioid-induced nausea and vomiting among patients with end-stage cancer

Fujita Medical Journal, 2023
Objectives: Antiemetics have been widely recommended for treating opioid-induced nausea and vomiting (OINV). According to a previous study, the use of prophylactic prochlorperazine at the initiation of treatment with oral oxycodone was ineffective in ...
Kazuki Imai, Akihiko Futamura, Miyo Murai, Akihiro Ito, Norimasa Tsuzuki, Masanobu Usui   +5 more
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Chordoma. Clinical characteristics, management and prognosis of a case series of 25 patients [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Adequate surgery still remains the only curative treatment of chordoma. Interesting clinical data on advanced disease with molecularly targeted therapies were reported.Methods: We described the clinical outcome of a series of chordoma ...
Virginia Ferraresi, Carmen Nuzzo, Carmine Zoccali, Ferdinando Marandino, Antonello Vidiri, Nicola Salducca, Massimo Zeuli, Diana Giannarelli, Francesco Cognetti, Roberto Biagini, A Jemal, R Chugh, CE Peña, JM Mirra, NL Higinbotham, C Catton, PW Chambers, S Boriani, F Tzortzidis, D Baratti, D Schulz-Ertner, DC Weber, GF Fleming, E Tamborini, S Stacchiotti, H Hof, K Schönegger, ZL Gokaslan, HY Zhang, P Bergh, KL Foweraker, PA Forsyth, BJ Cummings, P Gabriele, GC Feigl, HD Suit, M Austin-Seymour, M Austin-Seymour, G Noël, R Chugh, PG Scimeca, A Azzarelli, PG Casali, PG Casali, PM Weinberger, S Stacchiotti   +45 more
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Does primary tumor resection contribute to overall survival in unresectable synchronous metastatic colorectal cancer?

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2020
Background: Primary tumor resection (PTR) in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has not been suggested by guidelines, since new systemic chemotherapy options have improved overall survival. However, the effect of PTR is still controversial in mCRC.
Yakup Ergun, Oznur Bal, Mutlu Dogan, Gokhan Ucar, Merve Dirikoc, Yusuf Acikgoz, Ferhat Bacaksiz, Dogan Uncu   +7 more
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Nurse's Spiritual Care Competencies to Patient with End Stage Breast Cancer [PDF]

, 2018
Cancer has many side effects on patient's physic and mostly on mental which may affect on their quality of life. Physically most patients feel fatigue, insomnia, anorexia, nausea, and vomit while mentally they feel emotional disturbances such as anxiety,
Anisa, N. R. (Nurul), Erika, K. A. (Kadek), Rachmawaty, R. (Rini)   +2 more
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Estimation of Reserves for Improving the Results of Patients with Multipresistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Application of Surgical Methods Based on Analysis of the Efficiency of Conservative Treatment of a Specified Cohort [PDF]

, 2018
In order to improve the results of treatment of patients with multi-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis with the use of surgical methods, the effectiveness estimation of conservative treatment of 176 patients with this form of tuberculosis according to ...
Ivashchenko, V. (Vladimir), Kalabukha, I. (Igor), Khmel, O. (Oleg)   +2 more
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Cytoreduction and HIPEC in the treatment of "unconventional" secondary peritoneal carcinomatosis [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Peritoneal metastasis (PM) is considered a terminal and incurable disease. In the last 30 years, cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) radically changed the therapeutic approach for these patients ...
Accarpio, Fabio, Biacchi, Daniele, Cardi, Maurizio, DI GIORGIO, Angelo, Mingarelli, Valentina, Musio, Daniela, Sammartino, Paolo, Sibio, Simone, Sollazzo, BIANCA MARIA   +8 more
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Embolization in an adrenocortical carcinoma as palliative therapy [PDF]

, 1999
Background: With an annual incidence of 0.2% of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants, adrenocortical carcinoma is rare. In advanced tumor only palliative treatment modalities are practicable. Because of scarcity of the tumor, standard treatment has not been
Braunschweig, R., Forstpointner, Roswitha, Kühl, M., Lang, N., Meissner, H., Schalhorn, Andreas   +5 more
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Palliative care education in surgery [PDF]

Annals of Palliative Medicine, 2022
Though incorporating palliative care principles with standard medical and surgical care has been associated with multiple benefits, surgical training devotes far less time to developing skills within the palliative care domains. In this review, we sought to explore the existing literature concerning palliative care education within the context of ...
Sara M, Jafri, C Ann, Vitous, Pasithorn A, Suwanabol   +2 more
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