Paediatric oncology
Staff burnout in paediatric oncology : new tools to facilitate the development and evaluation of effective interventions
... in paediatric oncology has been ...of Paediatric Oncology (Spinetta et ...in paediatric oncology (working with ill and dying children, dealing with ...
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Family talk intervention in paediatric oncology: a pilot study protocol
... Introduction There is evidence that families with a child diagnosed with cancer need psychosocial support throughout the illness trajectory. Unfortunately, there is little research into psychosocial interventions for ...
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Risk factors for oral mucositis in paediatric oncology patients receiving alkylant chemotherapy
... All the regimens used in the Department of Paediatric Oncology of the Institut Gustave Roussy include alkylat- ing agents. These agents are currently the most effective and frequently-used antineoplastic ...
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Person-centred information to parents in paediatric oncology (the PIFBO study): A study protocol of an ongoing RCT
... Each parent in the intervention arm has four meetings with the intervention nurse, and before each meeting the parent chooses a topic of interest. A list of suggested topics is available for this, based on topics chosen ...
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Young patients', parents', and survivors' communication preferences in paediatric oncology: Results of online focus groups
... Focus group discussions are a means to explore respond- ents' needs and preferences. These discussions have specif- ically been recommended in research with children, as they allow them to use their own words in ...
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Global Health Journal Club: Is Honey Effective as a Treatment for Chemotherapy-induced Mucositis in Paediatric Oncology Patients?
... You are currently working at a large paediatric oncology centre in Tanzania. You have noticed that treatment has had to be delayed in several patients with severe mucositis; these patients have also ...
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What and how should we measure in paediatric oncology FDG-PET/CT? Comparison of commonly used SUV metrics for differentiation between paediatric tumours
... The ability to reproducibly quantify tumour metabol- ism has made SUV measures a powerful tool in 18 F-FDG PET/CT imaging in oncology. Beside their use in the diagnosis of malignancy, SUV measures may also pro- ...
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Survey of psychosocial support provided by UK paediatric oncology centres
... Results – results demonstrate that there were many good areas of support provided by centres but there were also few standard practices and procedures. All centres employed social workers, play specialists and ...
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Investigating the cost effectiveness of videotelephone based support for newly diagnosed paediatric oncology patients and their families: design of a randomised controlled trial
... A larger scale exploratory investigation into the use of vid- eotelephones for psychotherapy (n = 80) reported higher scores for client levels of initiative, trust and spontaneity via videotelephone than the same scores ...
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Online focus groups as a tool to collect data in hard-to-include populations: examples from paediatric oncology
... To minimize selection bias, patients and their parents were included by consecutive inclusion, based on order of appointment in two Dutch university paediatric oncology wards. Letters describing the study ...
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Balancing high accrual and ethical recruitment in paediatric oncology: a qualitative study of the 'look and feel' of clinical trial discussions
... In paediatric oncology it is often the physician with clinical responsibility for the child who approaches the parents about participating in a trial and there is a strong interwoven relationship between ...
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Comparison of anticipated and actual control group outcomes in randomised trials in paediatric oncology provides evidence that historically controlled studies are biased in favour of the novel treatment
... Our analyses are based on 48 RQs. However, the data represented only 50% of the published paediatric RCTs that we identified in our search. We found 92 publications describing 107 RQs with time-to-event and ...
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Emergency imaging in paediatric oncology: a pictorial review
... Whilst paediatric malignancies are comparatively rarer than in the adult population, they are biologically very dif- ferent and consist of differing tumour types which predispose to differing types of emergency ...
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Symptoms in Children/Young People With Progressive Malignant Disease: United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group/Paediatric Oncology Nurses Forum Survey
... pediatric oncology, and most children/young people with cancer in the United Kingdom are treated under the supervision of 1 of its 22 ...Pediatric Oncology Nurses Forum. This group included representatives ...
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The care of adolescents and young adults with cancer: results of the ESMO/SIOPE survey
... Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) recognised these issues and created a joint working group on Cancer in Adolescents and Young ...and paediatric ...
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Does referral to specialist paediatric palliative care services reduce hospital admissions in oncology patients at the end of life?
... whereby palliative care is a phase that starts after disease-directed treatment has failed, tends to be followed in paediatric oncology patients. This may explain why the groups of patients who were not ...
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Wilms tumour in children: 18 years of experience at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Lithuania
... solid paediatric tumours in Lithuania was the tran- sition from adult services (where children with WT were treated up to 1998) to specialized paediatric oncology ...of paediatric acute ...
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In search of self : the hospitalisation experiences of children with cancer : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
... Intervention Studies for Behavioural Coping Responses Interventions in the paediatric oncology literature related to the pain, distress and anxiety resulting from medical procedures, fal[r] ...
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Paediatric neuro-oncology rehabilitation in the UK: carer and provider perspectives
... between paediatric oncology, paediatric neurology, nursing, therapy, psychology, dietetic, educational and social care providers, has not been specified by healthcare ...
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Key words
... of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), which has used the working name SIOP – RTSG (Renal Tumor Study Group – Group for the Study of Kidney tumors) since 2008 and in North America NWTS (National Wilms’ Tumor Study ...
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