Prognostic score for life expectancy evaluation of lung cancer patients after bone metastasis. Pruksakorn D,Phanphaisarn A,Settakorn J,et al. J Bone Oncol . 2017Pruksakorn D, Phanphaisam P, Settakorn J, Arpornchayanon U, et al. Prognostic score for life expectancy evaluation of lung cancer...
BACKGROUND.The surgical treatment of spinal epidural metastasis is evolving. To be a surgical candidate, a patient should have a life expectancy of at least 3 months. Estimation of survival by experienced specialists has proven to be unreliable.METHODS.The Cox proportional hazards model was used to...
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Patients with an expected life expectancy of <12 weeks, as determined by the treating oncologist, were excluded. All patients in this study had de novo metastatic prostate cancer, and none of them had been treated for local disease in the past (Figure 1). Demographic data were collected from...
This personalized graph can then be compared with other individuals who may be living similar lifestyles and share similar traits to provide an idea of the generic life expectancy. This concept is described in Figure 1 with the red and black lines superimposed on each other. During point A, ...
31 months with treatment about 6 months without treatment many factors impact life expectancy, such as cell type, location and cancer stage. as a result, a patient’s life expectancy may be outside the average range. life expectancy may also change over time, depending on treatment efficacy ...
Introduction: Cancer is among diseases characterized with uncontrollable growth and invasion of tissues and metastasis. Hopeful spirit is important and essential factor in cancer patients that has many effects on patients' adaptability with life situation, especially in periods of pain and suffering. Hope...
An inpatient palliative care consultation service was started at KHCC, as early as 2004; it was later expanded to offer outpatient palliative care for all patients regardless of their stage of disease, while hospice and home care were offered for patients with an estimated life expectancy of 6 ...
Patients had a histopathological or cytological diagnosis of non-resectable, recurrent or metastatic biliary tract carcinoma (intra- or extra-hepatic cholangiocarcinoma), gallbladder or ampullary carcinoma; were aged X18 years; had an estimated life expectancy 43 months; ECOG performance status 0–2; ...
This multi-center cohort study aimed to investigate whether sex and prediagnosis lifestyle affect the prognosis of gastric cancer. Patients with gastric cancer were from four gastric cancer cohorts of the National Cancer Center of China, The First Hospit