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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Bowel cancer"”.
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Thinking self after bowel cancer: an embodied interpretation and art-iculation
… to an understanding of the experience of cancer survivorship by focusing on survivors’ “comprehending” of self vis-à-vis cancer, specifically by exploring embodied dimensions of their comprehending. This approach sits within an interpretive phenomenological paradigm. It draws, in …
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Thinking self after bowel cancer: an embodied interpretation and art-iculation.
… to an understanding of the experience of cancer survivorship by focusing on survivors’ “comprehending” of self vis-à-vis cancer, specifically by exploring embodied dimensions of their comprehending. This approach sits within an interpretive phenomenological paradigm. It draws, in …
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A better FIT: Risk stratification of screening intervals and FIT thresholds in bowel cancer screening
The risk of developing bowel cancer is associated with numerous lifestyle and genetic factors, meaning that individuals with a higher risk gain substantially more from screening than those at low risk. Risk stratification has therefore been suggested to improve the balance of screening harms and …
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What do endoscopy nurses believe is necessary for a Nurse Endoscopist role to develop in New Zealand?
… 1200 deaths and about 2700 new cases of bowel cancer each year (Ministry of Health 2009). The New Zealand Health Minister (2010) believes that a nationwide screening programme could reduce the deaths from bowel cancer by up to 36%, saving up to 270 lives a year. A government taskforce has …
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Retrospective analysis of National Bowel Screening Programme outcomes in Hawke’s Bay: The need to achieve equity
BACKGROUND Bowel cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed and also one of the deadliest cancers in the world. New Zealand’s bowel cancer rates are one of the highest in the world, particularly for females. Both Māori and Pasifika populations are more likely to have a more unfortunate health …
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Η ΠΑΝΣΙΓΜΟΕΙΔΟΣΚΟΠΗΣΙΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΑΝΙΧΝΕΥΣΙΝ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΘΟΚΟΛΙΚΩΝ ΟΓΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ Η ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑ ΑΥΤΗΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΛΗΨΙΝ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΡΚΙΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΧΕΟΣ ΕΝΤΕΡΟΥ
… 258 PATIENTS WITH A TOTAL OF 226 ADENOMAS AND 46 CANCERS. IN THE AREA 0-25 CM WE FOUND 125 LESION (98POLYPS AND 27 CANCER), WHEREAS BEYOND THIS LIMIT 220 LESIONS (201 POLYPS AND19 CANCER) WERE FOUND. THE FIBEROPTIC PANSIGMOIDOSCOPE REPRESENTS FUNDAMENTALPROGRESS IN TECHNIQUES OF DETECTION OF …
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The design, development, implementation and evaluation of the United Kingdoms first degree pathway for non-medical endoscopists
… the 2 and 18 week rules and introduction of bowel cancer screening. Nurse endoscopy has evolved over the last decade with many nurse endoscopists extending practice from flexible sigmoidoscopy to colonoscopy, which may leave service gaps leaving routine flexible sigmoidoscopy at risk. To fill …
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The Importance of Identifying Iron Deficiency Anaemia in the Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is common and carries a relatively poor prognosis. The strong relationship between tumour stage at diagnosis and survival is the basis of the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) and highlights the importance of early diagnosis. Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is …
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Microultrasound Imaging of Tissue Dysplasia
The second most common cause of cancer deaths in the developed world is bowel cancer. Improving the ability to detect and classify lesions as early as possible, allows treatment earlier. The work presented in this thesis is structured around the following detailed aims:Development of high …
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Intra-operative optical monitoring of bowel tissue viability based on photoplethysmography and laser doppler flowmetry
Determination of bowel viability in patients undergoing bowel resection is essential in gastrointestinal surgery. One of the most common operations in gastrointestinal surgery is bowel resection for patients who have different kinds of bowel cancer or any other occlusion in which anastomosis has to …
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How do New Zealand nurses who work in the area of oncology educate and provide follow-up support to patients who are prescribed oral capecitabine and what are nurses’ perceptions of this process?
… popular treatment option for individuals with cancer, replacing the traditional method of administering this treatment intravenously (IV). When chemotherapy is given IV the responsibility for administration rests with health professionals and it is usually given in a medical environment such as …
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Genomics of Lynch syndrome and Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome
… MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 cause the dominant adult cancer syndrome termed Lynch syndrome (or hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer). In our South African cohort, the MLH1 exon 13 c.1528C>T mutation is the most common Lynch syndrome-causing variant in the Mixed Ancestry population. Recently, a …
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The use of knowledge discovery databases in the identification of patients with colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common forms of malignancy with 35,000 new patients diagnosed annually within the UK. Survival figures show that outcomes are less favourable within the UK when compared with the USA and Europe with 1 in 4 patients having incurable disease at presentation as of …
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Common genetic variance at the SMAD9 colorectal cancer risk locus influences tumour mutational phenotype
… germline variance associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk can influence the somatic mutational landscapes of CRC. Some Mendelian cancer syndromes, such as Lynch syndrome (LS) and MUTYH associated polyposis, associate with defined mutational landscapes and this association can be …