(i) Telling facts: smoking impacts on the survival and on the outcomes of surgery, chemo-, - and biological therapies. The aim of our intervention was to enable patients to make informed choices about smoking. (ii) Offering sensitive and effective smoking cessation like an instrument of ...
Wistfully, I recall the days I could work all day, come home and do things around the house and then go out for dinner! Those days are long gone. I am off the chemo this week, but next week I will feel even more fatigue when I go back on. ...
Supportive Care Spotlight - In-person and virtual events just for HCPs CME Opportunities Choose Specialty Everyone needs help; however, caregivers may be more likely to avoid asking for help so they don’t burden others – even if they are taking on all the weight of a relative’s illness....
Phyllis has come to every session of this art class in my Mom’s assisted living facility, but she has struggled because of her eyesight. She wanted to participate, and did, but it wasn’t easy. When I left after class two weeks ago, I wondered if there was some way to make the cl...
Taking Care of the Chemo Lounge: How We Take and Give Care Ovarian Cancer Treatment, Communicating With Loved Ones, Health, Wellness, and Emotional Support By Jim Ingalls Jim offers advice for care partners on different ways they can support their loved ones throughout their experience with ...
Various anticancer drugs have been encapsulated and linked with PLA-PEG copolymer NPs, including chemopharmaceuticals, aptamers, nucleic acids, and peptides [140,141,142]. Various researchers are investigating the controlled distribution of biosurfactants via PLA-PEG copolymeric NPs. Folic acid is used...
Compared to drugs that simply ease the symptoms of sickle-cell disease, DMTs can slow disease progression by treating the root cause. For example, the chemo drug hydroxyurea, one of the most used DMTs for sickle-cell disease, increases levels of fetal haemoglobin. “While it was the only FDA...
The author presents the history of this medical problem. The article discusses the administration of zidovudine to staff members who had become infected with HIV. The article discusses the efficacy of this course of treatment. The author discusses how there is evidence that chemoprophylaxis may well...
all the years she was on chemo. I take a picture of the bucket of throw up and text it to my brother-in-law. Tell him what it smells like. He said call hospice and report it that yes it probably was a bowl obstruction and that we were going to have to send her to the ...
Patients with P. falciparum malaria were more likely to have used their chemoprophylaxis less compliantly than patients with non-P. falciparum malaria who were more likely to have contracted malaria in spite of compliant use of chemoprophylaxis....