CURATIVE AND PALLIATIVE SURGERY
Changes in health-related quality of life in oesophagogastric cancer patients participating in palliative and curative therapies
... a curative or pallia- tive regimen based on the treatment protocol of the oncol- ogy ...1) Curative intent group consisted of patients who were to undergo surgery alone, or neoadjuvant chemotherapy ...
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Palliative Surgery. October 2021, Volume 23, Number 10: E
... term curative assumes the operation is all or nothing and that patients would refuse the operation if its benefit were limited to prolonged survival or improved quality of ...
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When Parents Have Misunderstandings About the Risks and Benefits of Palliative Surgery
... needs surgery, both the surgeon and the anesthesiologist must obtain informed consent from the ...of surgery and the associated risks and ...when surgery is palliative rather than ...
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Early postoperative outcome after curative colorectal cancer surgery
... for nutritional status, mode of admission (elective or emergency), site of tumour (descending colon and rectosigmoid tumours were grouped together as left- sided colonic tumours, whereas caecum, ascending colon and ...
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Forequarter amputation: a safe rescue procedure in a curative and palliative setting in high grade malignoma of the shoulder girdle
... Regarding the overall surgical risk of the FQA, we ob- served one major and five minor complications in the perioperative setting. Also, there was no intraoperative complication noticed. The major complication was seen ...
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Stereotactic body radiation therapy in stage I inoperable lung cancer: from palliative to curative options.
... One hypothesis to explain the low rates of regional recur- rence after SABR might be that there was sufficient dose falloff, related to the high biological dose radiotherapy, to the regional nodes, and thus tumour cells ...
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Prognostic value of the distance of proximal resection margin in patients who have undergone curative gastric cancer surgery
... or palliative treatment for gastric ...with curative gastrectomy were enrolled in the current ...I surgery and 500 underwent Billroth II surgery) and 245 who underwent total ...
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Comparison of Surgery Plus Chemotherapy and Palliative Chemotherapy Alone for Advanced Gastric Cancer with Krukenberg Tumor
... palliative operation for symptom relief. Recently, the development of diagnostic tools has increased early detection of Krukenberg tumors and their curative resectability. Nevertheless, the optimal ...
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Comparison of surgery plus chemotherapy and palliative chemotherapy alone for advanced gastric cancer with krukenberg tumor
... general, curative surgery plays an important role in gastric cancer without distant ...received surgery or palliative chemotherapy according to the initial disease ...for palliative ...
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Preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic predictor after curative-intent surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma: experience from a developing country
... In a study by Young et al, NLR had no prognostic benefit in noncirrhotic HCC patients while NLR predicted both over- all and recurrence-free survival in HCC patients with cirrho- sis. 49 In the same study on 142 HCC ...
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Exploring the transition from curative care to palliative care: a systematic review of the literature.
... specialist palliative care for both cancer and non-cancer conditions and highlight a lack of standardised criteria in the UK to determine when a referral should be ...specialist palliative care 21 ...
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Parietal and peritoneal localizations of hepatocellular carcinoma: is there a place for a curative surgery?
... causative event of PPL if there was an exact corres- pondence of the parietal seeding with the trajectory of the needle. Delay of appearance was noted, together with the pathological features (location, size, number, ...
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A curative-intent endoscopic surgery for postradiation nasopharyngeal necrosis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma
... novel curative-intent endoscopic surgery comprising of radical endoscopic necrectomy and reconstruction of the nasopharyngeal defect using the nasal septum and floor mucoperiosteum flap to treat the PRNN ...
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Short course palliative radiotherapy followed by chemoradiation with curative intent in advanced and unresectable head and neck cancer
... by palliative radiotherapy 30 Gy in 3 Gy per ...of palliative radiotherapy were taken up for further radiotherapy with curative ...of palliative radiotherapy with gap ...
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Family Perspectives of Nursing Strategies to Facilitate Transition from Curative to Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
... One nurse did say, I think I started crying, and he/she said, “That’s going to make you feel better,” or something like that, “I know the feeling, I’m a nurse now, but I’ve been in a s[r] ...
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Aspects of drug use in schizophrenia, cardiac surgery and palliative care
... The objectives of this study were to determine the steady-state plasma concentrations of fluphenazine in patients receiving the drug by repeat depot intramuscular injection and not p[r] ...
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Effects of Surgery and Palliative Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Colorectal Liver Metastasis
... ble) is the most effective treatment for colorectal liver metastases in providing long term survival. There was a survival benefit from oxaliplatin or irinotecan based chemotherapy in patients who recurred after liver ...
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Stage II Pancreatic Cancer: Radical, Palliative Surgery or Stenting?
... radical, palliative surgery or stenting of pancreatic head cancer between years 2002-2014 was ...whom surgery or stenting was performed because of duodenal or ampullary tumour, cholangiocarcinoma, ...
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Combined surgery and radiotherapy as curative treatment for tracheal adenoid cystic carcinoma: a case report
... Many studies are available in the scientific literature about the employment of radiotherapy in ACC (Table 1). Maziak et al. [6] published a retrospective study in which they analyzed 38 patients affected by ACC of the ...
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Metastatic spread pattern after curative colorectal cancer surgery. A retrospective, longitudinal analysis
... Funding Funding was obtained from the Norwegian Health Authorities (KMA, postdoctoral fellow) and from the Department of Colorectal Surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center (KMA and PB). JR was supported ...
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