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I am after articles describing any adaptations or validations of the Problem List that goes with the Distress Thermometer (in adult oncology patients). I am aware of Brennan et al in the UK and...
10 October 2014 5,774 5 View
Ashya King is now finally receiving the treatment his parents were after. But not before they had to jump through legal hoops, like taking their child from his hospital to Spain and being taken...
09 September 2014 8,348 3 View
We are putting together a research project that aims to trace the muscle metabolic profile of the laser effects in mice with cancer. Can anyone suggests some article?
08 August 2014 7,803 4 View
We are building an oncologic study searching
08 August 2014 2,110 4 View
07 August 2014 7,831 3 View
In my center, an academic hospital in Spain, and an ESMO Designated Center of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care, we are outlining a new protocol for Early Palliative Care intervention in...
07 July 2014 2,399 14 View
Sharpe [1] and colleagues used the National Cancer Data Base to study the effect of bilateral mastectomy for early-stage breast cancer on length of hospital stay, readmission rate, 30-day...
07 July 2014 6,311 3 View
I had already asked a question about the phenotype of residual disease (visceral lesions of the "tuberous sclerosis" or lymphangioleiomyomatosis) after treatment with rapamycin or analogues. There...
02 July 2014 961 3 View
I'm working on a book about ozone therapy and would like to hear any opinions on this topic.
17 June 2014 5,815 9 View
According to a 2004 report by Morgan, Ward, and Barton: "The contribution of cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies. ... survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in...
16 June 2014 6,380 28 View
A patient was diagnosed with Phyllodes tumors, tumor of left breast s/p resection in the past and now with newly diagnosed colon cancer, but also on CT found to have pancreatic mass s/p biopsy was...
08 June 2014 2,133 3 View
Dear colleagues, I need some reliable information on treatment patterns in prostate cancer patients with regard to the two questions mentioned below. Thank you for your help and all the best!...
06 June 2014 6,798 8 View
Sometimes we see patients living much longer than expected. Despite the advantages of multimodality treatment, their prognosis seems to be "hopeless" (e.g. gastric cancer with peritoneal...
06 June 2014 1,929 15 View
A woman with primary mediastinal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma has been through standard treatment with R-CHOP chemotherapy. After 6 days (12 Gy) of raditherapy to the upper mediastinum (roughly...
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I would like to use a comet assay to test the effect of my protein-of-interest on DNA damage response, double strand breaks and chemoresistance in cancer cells. There are several types of comet...
06 June 2014 7,949 3 View
According to Fritjof Capra in his book: The Turning Point, modern medicine and pharmacy suffer from Cartesian dualism. But i think the problem goes back in time to ancient Greek. For example,...
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Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) of the pancreas are being diagnosed with increasing frequency. IPMNs comprise a histologic group that ranges from adenoma to invasive carcinoma...
06 June 2014 973 7 View
Radiation oncology.
06 June 2014 6,024 2 View
We are developing a research study to improve communication between providers and women to increase cervical cancer screening in a low resource country. However, there are concerns about...
26 May 2014 4,340 8 View
Many patients show underweight before surgical treatment of esophageal cancer. Which methods can be used to interpret the surgical/anesthetical risk when performing surgery/anesthesia on an...
24 May 2014 1,695 10 View
I want to find out the sex of the cell line.
23 May 2014 9,416 4 View
I am looking for individuals who are evaluating information provided from patients during either specific treatments or during clinical trials....My goal is to somehow obtain quality data and then...
23 May 2014 7,651 2 View