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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Cancer patients quality of life"”.
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To evaluate the effects of an eight week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme on quality of life in palliative care cancer patients
… it is necessary to assess the value and benefit of such a programme for the patients. The research question asked if an eight week MBSR programme improves the quality of life of palliative care cancer patients. Quality of life is closely affected by the physical function, emotional or …
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Joining Forces:establishing A Cardio-Oncology Program
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Patients have been surviving cancer diagnoses at a steady increasing rate over the past few decades. In spite of the encouraging decline in cancer morbidity, the cardiovascular effect of some chemotherapy medications is concerning. Moreover, even though there is extensive …
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Computer-assisted approaches to the collection of quality of life data in oncology
The assessment of cancer patients' quality of life (QOL) has been increasing in both importance and relevance in recent years, and is becoming more integrated into clinical practice. This has been greatly facilitated by the development of standard QOL instruments. However, the standard …
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PHARMACOGENOMICS OF OPIOID RESPONSE IN EUROPEAN ADVANCED CANCER PATIENTS
… opioids, which are drugs in the third step of the World Health Organization’s analgesic ladder, are the standard of care for treating pain in advanced cancer patients. Unfortunately, a significant minority of them do not benefit from analgesic therapy, or experience several side effects, …
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Quality of life in patients with metastatic breast cancer : A South African perspective
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document