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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"cancer care"”.
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Decision making in surgery and cancer care
Decision making in surgery and cancer care is an interesting, challenging, and yet little explored area of surgical sciences research. This research addresses that paucity. In performing this research, health outcomes research (HOR) literature was comprehensively reviewed. Health outcome measures …
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Physiotherapy palliative cancer care: a case study approach.
… to evolve in the delivery of palliative cancer care services. Whilst it appears that there is an increasing need for physiotherapists, there is a lack of understanding about the nature of their role, their educational needs and their place within the rehabilitation team. The aim of my …
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A Wholistic Model of Cancer Care for Nursing Practice
… and values underlying the delivery of health care services. Though nursing theory development, nursing has embraced a new paradigm in which the scientific medical model is being replaced by a model based on the concept of wholism. Key ideas representing a wholistic paradigm of health appear …
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A mixed methods study exploring fatigue in advanced cancer care
… Many people are living for longer with advanced cancer because of improvements in cancer treatments. Fatigue is the most prevalent and burdensome symptom in this cohort of patients. Thus, many could benefit from any improvements in the assessment and management of fatigue in advanced cancer care. …
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Rural Women's Perspectives on Cancer Care in Southern Saskatchewan
One in two Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. A cancer diagnosis requires supportive care during diagnosis, treatment, follow up and palliative care. Those living in rural areas in Canada experience additional burdens in meeting supportive care needs. The purpose of this …
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Client's perceptions of the oncology social work service at cancer care
… oncology social work services offered at three Cancercare practices in Cape Town. It considered their motivation for using the service as well as their overall experience of the service. Positive aspects as well as the challenges encountered with the service were examined concerning the …
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Exploring Responsive and Supportive Cancer Care for Racialized Adolescents and Young Adults
… focuses on exploring responsive and supportive cancer care for racialized adolescents and young adults (AYAs) in BC through engagement with healthcare professionals working at BC Cancer. Drawing upon participatory action research (PAR) and patient-oriented research (POR) methodologies, the study …
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User-Centered Design of Quality of Life Reports for Clinical Prostate Cancer Care
… Primary treatment of localized prostate cancer can result in bothersome urinary, sexual, and bowel symptoms. Yet clinical application of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires is rare. We employed user-centered design to develop graphical dashboards of prostate cancer …
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Reliable and Trustworthy AI for Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support in Cancer Care
… benefits, especially in managing challenging cancer cases. This thesis presents research focused on addressing these challenges: developing a continuous time model-based time-to-event regression framework to improve the prediction of clinically meaningful patient outcomes from irregularly …
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Effect of Fragmentation of Cancer Care on Treatment Use and Survival in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Needs assessment for personalized garments to improve quality of life in breast cancer care
… and treatment have significantly improved breast cancer survival rates, many patients continue to face ongoing emotional and physical challenges. These challenges may include diminished body image and difficulties with intimacy due to perceived changes in their bodies, which can impact their …
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Someone who understands: a qualitative study exploring cancer patients' experiences of psychotherapy in cancer care
… is now recognised as the sixth vital sign of cancer and as such is not unexpected at any stage along the disease trajectory. It has gradually become an aspect of the disease that is recognised, monitored, documented, and promptly treated in many healthcare systems worldwide. Psycho-oncology is …
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The economic and clinical outcomes and policy implications of gene expression profiling in breast cancer care
In the U.S., the majority of premenopausal breast cancer patients are recommended by clinical guidelines to receive adjuvant chemotherapy to prevent disease progression and increase survival. However, low-risk patients may be experiencing the side effects of chemotherapy, with no corresponding …
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A Patient-Oriented Exploration of Women's Perspectives on Surgeon Continuity in Breast Cancer Care
… considered a key component of patient-centered care, yet little is known about how women with breast cancer perceive and value surgeon continuity compared with team-based models of care. This study explored women’s perspectives on continuity across diagnosis, surgery, and postoperative follow-up …
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Malnutrition screening and nutritional support in cancer care : dietetic challenges and the role of multidisciplinary collaboration
Background: Nutrition plays a key role in helping cancer patients tolerate treatments and maintain their quality of life. This PhD aimed to explore the opportunities to improve dietetic support during cancer treatments. Methods: A scoping review was conducted to investigate what is currently known …
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University of Washington/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Experience with Single Agent Ipilimumab in Advanced Unresectable/Metastatic Melanoma
… melanoma patients treated at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA). Methods:We performed a chart review on 126 patients with metastatic melanoma treatedwith single agent ipilmumab from 2006 to 2012 at the SCCA. These patients hadreceived ipilimumab at either the investigational 10 mg/kg …
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Cancer care services in Greece: A Delphi approach to investigate the views of Healthcare providers and users
Cancer is emerging as a major problem globally and effective cancer care services are needed to lessen its burden on the community. In Greece, oncology health service provision is not located efficiently, resulting in only few patients receiving high quality care. Furthermore, shortages of health …
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How to improve the cancer care quality -the development of the emotion-focus supportive sensor chair LCare
… This is how I get the inspiration to make LCare, a sensor chair that can tell the true feelings of cancer patients. In cancer care, the doctor is still mainly understanding their patients through language but ignoring the gestures and body language expressions. This thesis proposes the …
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