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Nurses’ Moral Sensitivity Regarding the Terminally Ill
Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2019 Objective. The purpose, herein, was to determine the moral sensitivity of nurses when caring for terminally ill patients. Methods. Descriptive study conducted in the city of Cartagena (Colombia) with the participation of 118 nurses with minimum ...
Yolima Carmona González +1 more
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Polypharmacy in the terminally ill [PDF]
Medical Journal of Australia, 2013 To the Editor A significant number of patients who receive palliative care are over 65 years of age. In addition to their terminal illness, they often have other medical comorbidities. Long-term medical management of these conditions can evolve into a large regimen of medications.
Ross P, Cruikshank +2 more
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Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung +17 more
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Test Construction of Caregiver Collusion Questionnaire [PDF]
, 2014 A scale to measure the collusion of the diagnosis among caregivers of terminally ill patients was developed and its psychometric properties were determined. The results showed the measures effectiveness.
James, N
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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Ringer lactate - the magical fluid
Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2020 This article narrates my personal encounter with a terminally ill cancer patient at our rural clinic. I learned a lot from the experience. It made me reflect on the importance of palliative care in terminally ill patients and the practical difficulties ...
Vinod H Krishnamoorthy
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Educational process in palliative care and the overhaul of thinking
Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2017 Objective. To know the contributions of the educational process in Palliative Care during the undergraduate level for the professional action of nurses in the care of patients at the end of life. Methods.
Karen Knopp de Carvalho +4 more
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Extending life for people with a terminal illness: a moral right and an expensive death? Exploring societal perspectives [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Many publicly-funded health systems apply cost-benefit frameworks in response to the moral dilemma of how best to allocate scarce healthcare resources.
Baker, Rachel M. +7 more
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Physician's Communication in Code Status Discussions for Terminally Ill Cancer Patients in Inpatient Hospice/Palliative Care Units in Japan: A Nationwide Post-Bereavement Survey [PDF]
, 2021 Yoshiyuki Kizawa +7 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Clinical analysis reveals significant dysregulation of FGFRL1 in esophageal cancer (EC) patients. RNAi‐coupled next‐generation sequencing (NGS) and in vitro study reveal FGFRL1‐mediated EC progression via EMT, PI3K/Akt, and Notch pathways. Functional assays confirm its role in tumor growth, migration, and invasion.
Aprajita Srivastava +3 more
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