OBJECTIVE: To characterize the dying experience of patients with cancer over the last 6 months of life. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective analysis of the last 6 months of life among patients with colon cancer and non-small cell lung cancer enrolled in a prospective cohort study from June 1989 to...
Treatment Of Symptoms In Children Dying Of Cancer Is Inadequate, Australia
Backgrounds: There is growing concern among health care providers and the public about the quality of home end-of-life care for elderly patients with advanced cancer. Therefore, it is essential to learn more about the distressing symptoms experienced by elderly patients with advanced cancer dying at...
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women, accounting for about 270,000 cases a year. The average woman has about a 12% chance of developing breast cancer.
What does it mean when someone is cachectic? A person has cachexia or is “cachectic” when they've lost more than 5% of their body weight in 6 to 12 months without trying due to muscle wasting related to cancer or another serious disease. Before this stage, a person will have precachex...
common cancer among young men (aged 15-40) in North America; the rates of testicular cancer have been steadily climbing since the 1950s. More recent data from 2003 suggested that some 7,500 Americans were being diagnosed annually with testicular cancer, of which some 500 were dying as a ...
There are several different types of meningitis. Learn about meningitis symptoms and transmission to stay safe.
marrow that’s in the center of your bones will develop into red blood cells. If there aren’t enough stem cells, if they don’t work right, or if they’re replaced by other cells such as cancer cells, you might get anemia. Anemia caused by bone marrow or stem cell problems includes...
The option isn’t totally out of left field. Personalized medicine is all about the idea that by measuring a biomarker — levels of some substance in your blood or activity in the brain – you can predict your likely response to a treatment. “It’s very advanced in areas like cancer, ...
Perceived Weakness: Tips for Relief of ALS Fear Perceived weakness is an awful thing to have, and it originates from the mind, when someone starts believing he or she has ALS due to muscle twitching. Perceived weakness can disrupt a person’s life. Perceived [...] ALS ANXIETY, PERCEIVED ...