Help for Lung Cancer Patients and Their Families A lung cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming and dealing with the disease is very difficult for the patient, family, friends, and the medical team. Thousands of others have dealt with lung cancer and many sources of assistance are available. Here ...
Discussion: Developing decision aids (DA) for (lung) cancer patients with limited prognosis should empower patients to address these aspects and include information about "Best Supportive Care" as a treatment option. Using and implementing the decision aid HELP can not only give patients the ...
Lung CA seen on CXR. Credit:CC BY-SA 4.0James Heilman, MD/Wikipedia Moffitt Cancer Center researchers, in collaboration with the Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium, have developed a process to analyze mutated genes in lung adenocarcinoma to help better select personalized treatment options for patients...
CHICAGO — News released today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology shows how lung cancer patients equipped with a smartphone helped themselves to live longer and better. These were patients with high-risk lung cancer and good performance status who had already undergon...
Quality of Life in Patients With Colorectal Cancer 1 Year After Diagnosis Compared With the General Population: A Population-Based Study PURPOSE: Quality of life (QOL) has become an important outcome measure for patients with cancer, but long-term results from population-based studies are ra......
Anthony Stumbo is among a group of Kentucky clinicians and researchers working to improve outcomes for lung cancer patients and their families by increasing screening rates and thereby catching tumors earlier, when they're more treatable.Veronica Turner for KFF Health News ...
PURPOSE/: To determine the feasibility of individualized caregiver training for home care and symptom management conducted at the bedside of older patients... CC Hendrix,C Ray - 《Oncology Nursing Forum》 被引量: 22发表: 2006年 Prevalence of cancer alarm symptoms: A population-based cross-section...
Transformative PGA Technology May Help Treatment Selection for Lung Cancer, Liquid biopsy-based patient-derived gene expression signature could be used to predict the most suitable treatment for patients with lung cancer.
Distinguishing features of cancer patients who smoke: pain, symptom burden, and risk for opioid misuse. Although many cancer patients who have pain are smokers, the extent of their symptom burden and risk for opioid misuse are not well understood. In this stu... DM Novy,C Lam,ER Gritz,.....
In this book, the problem of cancer is approached from a psychological point of view. Psycho-oncology is the name of the branch of psychology dealing with cancer. For this purpose, the latest research results on the topic are introduced in such a way that patients and their families can lea...