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Integrating patient reported measures as predictive parameters into decisionmaking about palliative chemotherapy: a pilot study
... of chemotherapy, stabilisation or even improvement of the initial low QoL and high SYB (subjective benefit) is of high relevance in a palliative set- ting independent of objective tumour response or pro- ...
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Gynecologic oncology patients' satisfaction and symptom severity during palliative chemotherapy
... for palliative care [16], FACIT-TS-PS for treatment satisfaction [16], and possibly the Missoula- VITAS QOL index designed to measure QOL of patients with advance incurable diseases, weighing each dimen- sion ...
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Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation of the Quadriceps in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Palliative Chemotherapy: A Randomized Phase II Study
... alongside palliative chemotherapy and there are no directly comparable ...completed chemotherapy were asked to use NMES 30 minutes daily for one month, median (range) reported adherence was higher at ...
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Impact of palliative chemotherapy and best supportive care on overall survival and length of hospitalization in patients with incurable Cancer: a 4-year single institution experience in Japan
... However, complications can arise in shared decision- making. Patient treatment decisions are influenced based on whether the oncologist emphasizes the positive or negative aspects of the treatment (e.g., survival gain or ...
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Effects of Surgery and Palliative Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Colorectal Liver Metastasis
... based chemotherapy in patients who recurred after liver resec- tion and these recurrences were ...tomy chemotherapy is clarified by a randomised study, patients with resectable liver and/or lung metastases ...
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Usefulness of Carcinoembryonic Antigen for Monitoring Tumor Progression during Palliative Chemotherapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
... Between January 2005 and December 2007, 48 patients with initially unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (n=26, 54.2%) or recurrent unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (n=22, 45.8%) underwent palliative ...
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Neuromuscular electrical stimulation of the quadriceps in patients with non small cell lung cancer receiving palliative chemotherapy: a randomized Phase II study
... completed chemotherapy, suggested NMES warranted further study ...of palliative chemotherapy, we considered it appropriate to formally explore the acceptability of NMES in this setting before ...
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Patient perceptions of their decision to undergo palliative chemotherapy in the Edinburgh Cancer Centre
... of palliative chemotherapy, which typically included several cycles (doses) of treatment, were identified by their clinical teams during routine visits to the ...consultations. Palliative intent is ...
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Demographic data and progression-free survival of the patients with biliary cancers receiving palliative chemotherapy in India
... where palliative chemotherapy is the only an option which is basically to improve the symptoms of the disease and to improve the quality of life of the ...of chemotherapy for patients with ad- vanced ...
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Management of blood infection caused by colonization of the vascular port with klebsiella variicola in case of patient treated with palliative chemotherapy
... Kasperska Paulina, Nowicka Małgorzata, Oleksy Eliza, Ziółkowska Anna, Kędziora-Kornatowska Kornelia. Management of blood infection caused by colonization of the vascular port with klebsiella variicola in case of patient ...
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Decision aids for second-line palliative chemotherapy: a randomised phase II multicentre trial
... offered palliative chemotherapy, there is in- creasing recognition of the delicate balance between the modest benefits of palliative chemotherapy and the bur- den of treatment ...while ...
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Original Article Prognostic value of C-reactive protein/albumin ratio in patients receiving first-line palliative chemotherapy with unresectable stage IV gastric cancer
... There are several limitations of this study. For example, treatments differed and included che- motherapy and palliative radiotherapy. Further, we did not study the differences in the course of chemotherapy ...
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First line palliative chemotherapy in elderly patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma
... Despite the potential value, the main limitation to in- corporating CGA in oncology clinics is that it requires time and service development. Furthermore, there is a lack of randomised studies to assess the effectiveness ...
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<p>A real-world evidence of efficacy of palliative gastrectomy plus chemotherapy in metastatic gastric cancer patients</p>
... However, palliative gastrectomy to reduce the tumor burden or potentially prolong survival remains con- ...by chemotherapy using S-1/cis- platin (SP) compared with chemotherapy alone for advanced GC ...
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Clinical Characteristics and efficacy of chemotherapy in sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma.
... Eleven out of 13 (84.6%) patients had localised disease at first presentation, all of whom underwent treatment with radical intent. Local recurrence occurred in all 11 patients and ultimately 10/11 (90.9%) patients ...
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Chemotherapy and palliative care near end-of life: examining the appropriateness at a cancer institute for colorectal cancer patients
... that chemotherapy administration did not improve QoL for patients with poor ...in palliative care. Among them, the Palliative Prognostic Score (PaP Score) [16–18] has been an accur- ate tool in ...
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Evaluation of prognostic factors and the role of chemotherapy in unfavorable carcinoma of unknown primary site: a 10 year cohort study
... with chemotherapy, but marked improvement of survival in patients at cancer centers compared to those who were not could also imply a potential benefit for aggressive surveillance and treatment ...of ...
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The role of histological subtype in hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer: similar survival but different therapeutic approaches
... often chemotherapy (28% versus 40%) and more often endocrine therapy (85% versus 73%) as compared to patients with HR-positive ...with palliative chemotherapy during the first six months had a ...
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Systemic therapy in elderly patients with advanced biliary tract cancer: Sub-analysis of ABC-02 and 10 other prospective studies.
... For the more common cancers such as lung [5-6] and colorectal cancer [7], there have been elderly-specific randomised-controlled trials and robust age-specific subgroup analyses of large studies, which provide guidance ...
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Surgical therapy of primary hepatic angiosarcoma
... received palliative chemotherapy with pacli- taxel for tumor recurrence: one patient died 3 months after diagnosis of intrahepatic tumor recurrence (11 months after surgery), while the other patient was ...
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