In addition, knowing someone who died after mastectomy emerged as a main reason for not having breast cancer surgery. Conclusions High refusal rate for mastectomy has direct implication on increased breast cancer mortality. Hence, expansion of radiotherapy service is instrumental to initiate breast-...
Information about the types of radiotherapy, surgical procedures, and the status of chemotherapy was later included in the program. One of the main targets of the SEER program is to record cancer incidences and mortality rates for the entire US population. To provide insight into the potential ...
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I was sent off to nearby Victorian asylums to carry out Hinton and Withers Present State Examinations on chronic schizophrenics as part of an on-going study of ‘dementia in dementia praecox.’ Dementia praecox is the old name for schizophrenia. The test included things like serial 7s (subtract...
If you turn to a healthcare practitioner for advice, it’s possible a doctor will treat your sleep disorder with a pharmacological intervention. However, sleep medications, known as sedative-hypnotic drugs or sleeping pills, are not without risk. Long-term use of such medications can result in...
Torsions often occur on one side and only once; however, recurrence in the same ovary or both ovaries is possible. Ovarian torsions are generally considered the result of a sudden increase in ovarian volume due to cysts, masses, or excessive mobilization due to a long mesosalpinx. However, ...
A potentially long post as I think I’ll struggle to stop once I get going. If anyone else out there has been through the same and has any advice I’d b...
Analyses were performed in a blind manner by and external scientist. Data collection. Data collection through questionnaires was performed by each patient at each measurement time (Q1: before the start of the program; Q2: one week after the first hippotherapy session for the treatment group; Q3:...
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which might improve the clinical value of PET/MR for children with cancer. However, even if PET/MR proves valuable, it cannot enter mainstream applications if it is not accessible to the majority of pediatric cancer patients. Therefore, innovations are needed to make PET/MR scanners affordable ...