radiation therapyoncologyquality of lifesymptomspain managementBACKGROUND: The prevalence of pain among patients undergoing radiation therapy (RT) is not well described.Lamba, NayanMahal, Brandon A.Martinez, RubenLeland, PeggyShih, Helen A.Cambridge Hlth Alliance Cambridge MA USAClinical journal of ...
All patients completed before, during and after treatment, a questionnaire that rated the grade of pain, the pharmacological type of analgesic therapy and patient's performance status. For each patient a total score was calculated, from a minimum value of 0% to a maximum of 20%, then ...
We recommend interventions to control pain be instituted prior to Week 3 to minimize the potentiation of subsequent pain. 展开 关键词: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma mucositis radiation therapy pain management DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3924(02)00678-4 被引量: 69 ...
Background: Oral mucositis (OM) is a painful and debilitating side effect that affects 80%–100% of patients undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. This dose-limiting side effect may potentially lead to pain,dehydration,malnutrition,infection,and treatment breaks. Treatment breaks can...
Radiation therapy represents an important and effective tool in the management of oncologic emergencies, such as spinal cord compression, uncontrolled pain or bleeding, and superior vena cava syndrome. Radiation acts by inducing DNA damage within cancer cells, thereby reducing or eliminating metastatic le...
Pain VincentThai,Robin L.Fainsinger, inPalliative Care (Second Edition), 2011 Radiation Therapy Radiation therapyis often very useful in controlling localized cancer-related bone pain, tumor growth, and infiltration. More than 40% of patients can expect at least a 50% reduction in pain, and sli...
Human factors risk management as a way to improve medical device safety: a case study of the therac 25 radiation therapy system. In a fatal incident in 1984 much discussed in the literature, a patient received 16,000 rads instead of the intended 180 rads when undergoing radiation tre... EW...
Texas Oncology's radiation therapy, or radiotherapy, uses high-energy rays to damage or kill cancer cells and prevent them from growing and dividing.
Highly conformal treatment planning by the use of IMRT or volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) reduces incidental exposure of normal tissue especially to high irradiation doses; however, a larger low-dose volume needs to be considered. To further reduce irradiation of normal tissue, tight safety...
However, only fe... Ting,Zhou,Kaixiang,... - 《Journal of Pain & Symptom Management》 被引量: 5发表: 2017年 加载更多研究点推荐 head and neck cancer radiation treatment head and neck (H&N) cancer H&N cancer radiation therapy 站内活动 ...