Critical Review: Is Watchful Waiting a Viable Management Option for Older Men With Prostate Cancer?
American Journal of Men's Health, 2007 Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second-leading cause of death from cancer in U.S. men. For older men with early-stage prostate cancer, watchful waiting (also referred to as surveil-lance, expectant management, deferred ...
Donald E. Bailey PhD, RN +1 more
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Extra-abdominal desmoid tumours – further evidence for the watchful waiting policy [PDF]
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2019 PURPOSE Extra-abdominal desmoid tumours are benign and rare, and lead to a persistent treatment dilemma because of their high recurrence rate and their heterogeneous behaviour.
Andreas H. Krieg +12 more
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Watchful waiting for depression using depathologization, advice and shared decision making
Journal of Affective Disorders ReportsBackground: Antidepressant use is on the rise, while the problem of depression on a population wide level is not being tackled. One of the hypothesis why this may be happening is the effect of adverse effects and withdrawal symptoms of antidepressants ...
Milutin Kostic +11 more
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Management strategies following slightly out-of-range INRs: watchful waiting vs dose changes. [PDF]
Blood Adv, 2022 Patients\u27 international normalized ratios (INRs) often fall slightly out of range. In these cases, the American College of Chest Physician (ACCP) guidelines suggest maintaining the current warfarin dose and retesting the INR within the following two ...
Remer HB +11 more
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Examining anxiety and depression in haematology cancer patients in ongoing treatment and under watchful waiting: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Eur J Cancer Care (Engl), 2022 INTRODUCTION: The present review aimed to establish prevalence rates of anxiety and depression in adults with haematology cancer, with a focus on the differences between patients under treatment and patients under watchful waiting. METHOD: Five databases
Russell K, Moghaddam N, Tickle A.
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Chapter 11 Watchful Waiting [PDF]
, 2021 This paper opens up the relationship between vulnerability and the temporalities of care. It takes ‘care’ as not just a material practice that supports, manages and sustains vulnerable bodies, but as a temporal practice, one that produces time in ...
Brook, William, Baraitser, Lisa
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A single-center long-term experience of active surveillance for prostate cancer: 15 years of follow-up [PDF]
Investigative and Clinical Urology, 2021 Purpose: To describe a single-center 15-year experience of active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer (PCa). Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent AS between 2003 and 2018.
Sang Hun Song +5 more
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Watchful waiting for communicating hydrocoele in infants
Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette, 2022 Background One of the commonest pediatric surgeries is hydrocele. There are suggestions to wait for spontaneous resolution than to operate these cases without harmful adverse events.
Tarek Abdelazeem Sabra +3 more
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Variations in the Uptake of Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer and Its Impact on Outcomes
European Urology Open Science, 2023 Background: Regional differences in active surveillance (AS) uptake for prostate cancer (PC) illustrate an inequality in treatment strategies. Objective: To examine the association between regional differences in AS uptake and transition to radical ...
Mats S. Ahlberg +3 more
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Rapid maxillary expansion versus watchful waiting in pediatric OSA: A systematic review. [PDF]
, 2022 [EN] Spontaneous resolution of pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may stand behind the observed benefit of rapid maxillary expansion (RME), mainly supported by uncontrolled case series. We aimed to review the controlled, ideally randomized, evidence
Fernández Barriales, Marcos +3 more
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