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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"cancer surgery"”.
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Operative Risk Factors in Gastric Cancer Surgery for Elderly Patients
Purpose: Gastric cancer surgery is popular operation in East Asia like Korea and Japan. Recently, population of elderly has been significantly increased. As results, surgery for gastric cancer surgery for elderly will be also increased. We evaluated the effect of old age on gastric cancer surgery, …
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The Relationship Between Menopausal Status and Pain After Breast Cancer Surgery
Women often undergo surgery as treatment for breast cancer, which results in moderate-to-severe acute postoperative pain (APOP), and in some patients transitions into chronic pain. Given that pain is influenced by a multitude of biopsychosocial factors, it is important to continue identifying those …
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CNNFORMER interpolation: a demosaicing framework for single-chip color–NIR1 imaging in fluorescence-guided cancer surgery
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Let me be part of the plan - Experiences of information and information needs after colorectal cancer surgery
… needs after being discharged after colorectal cancer surgery. The aim was also to study factors related to this. Different methods were combined in this explorative study in order to obtain diverse types of data. Patients who had undergone surgery for colorectal cancer at three hospitals in …
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From the ocean to the operating room: translating single-sensor spectral imagers to image-guided cancer surgery
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Improving surgical documentation in paediatric oncology evaluating the outcomes of synoptic operative reports on documentation completeness in childhood cancer surgery
… in pediatric oncology, with a focus on childhood cancer surgeries. The thesis addresses the challenges posed by traditional narrative operative reports (NR), which often exhibit variability, incompleteness, and lack of standardization, contributing to potential miscommunication within …
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Quality of Life and Supportive Care after Oesophageal Cancer Surgery. Long-term experiences and evaluation of a telephone based nurse-led supportive care programme
After oesophageal cancer surgery it is known that patients have a reduced QOL and that they suffer an unmet need of support. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate patients’ experiences of QOL and supportive care as well as to evaluate a telephone based nurse-led supportive care …
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conventional cytology is not beneficial for prediciting peritoneal recurrence after curative surgery for gastric cancer
… further treatment strategies after gastric cancer surgery is still unclear. One reason for this is that optimal procedures to increase the accuracy of predicting peritoneal metastasis have not been established. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of cytology using samples …
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Outcomes of clinical pathway in laparoscopic and open surgical treatments for gastric cancer patients : Patients selection for fast-track program through retrospective analysis
… clinical pathway in minimally invasive and open surgery for gastric cancer, and to establish a subgroup of patients who can be applied by the early recovery after surgery program through this retrospective analysis. Methods. In this retrospective study, we analyzed 425 patients who underwent …
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Use of Human Reliability Analysis to evaluate surgical technique for rectal cancer
Outcomes from surgery are dependent upon technical performance, as demonstrated by the variability that exists in outcomes achieved by different surgeons following surgery for rectal cancer. It is possible to improve such outcomes by focused training and the adoption of specific surgical …
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The psychological predictors of satisfaction following breast reconstructive surgery
Key words: cancer, oncology, psychological, breast surgery, satisfaction Aim: A Systematic review of prospective studies examining the relationship between psychological factors prior to surgery and patients’ outcomes following breast cancer surgery Background: Increasing numbers of women are …
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Development and implementation of an enhanced recovery after surgery protocol for women undergoing a mastectomy
… of an evidence-based enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) guideline with a specific focus on the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) and opioid administration in the postoperative setting. The clinical question was in adult women, age 18 years or greater, undergoing a …
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Utilizing data mining techniques and ensemble learning to predict development of surgical site infections in gynecologic cancer patients
… of a hospital acquired infection. Gynecological cancer surgery patients are already at higher risk of developing an infection due to the suppression of their immune system. This research leverages popular data mining techniques to create a prediction model to identify high risk patients. …
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Model-based cardiac CT segmentation and 3D heart reconstruction
Liver cancer is a serious disease in human beings. An effective way to cure liver cancer is the liver transplant operation. However, to make the surgical plan, the doctors need to know the structure, location and thickness of the hepatic vein. Therefore, hepatic vein segmentation is an initial and …
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Expression of Survivin : Possible Predictor of Local Recurrence after Curative Resection for Rectal Cancer
… been a challenging problem following rectal cancer surgery, desite of the advances in surgical technique(TME) as well as adjuvant therapy(preoperative CCRT). There is a need for better prognostic markers due to the varieties of treatment response within same clinicopathologic stage. Survivin, …
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The phenomenon of coping for women with primary breast cancer
… during and after a diagnosis of primary breast cancer. This experience was reported as a significant life event for all participants, requiring flexible use of different coping styles to adjust to the global disruption in their lives. The interview questions for the study used the existential …
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Does the Timing of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Gastric Cancer Influence Patient Outcome?
… as standard treatment in stage II/III gastric cancer, there is no report about the optimal timing of the initiation of chemotherapy. We investigated the effect of the interval between surgery and the start of chemotherapy on patient outcome. Patients and METHODS: A retrospective review was …
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Surguvant inflammation and metabolism in colorectal surgery
… the perioperative period may predispose to colon cancer recurrence. This thesis examined the ability to harness perioperative body composition, cell free DNA (cfDNA) and metabolomic data and apply these as prognostic markers and potential therapeutic targets in the treatment of colon cancer. …
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Multimodality Somatostatin Analog For Fluorescence-Guided Surgery In Cancer
<p>Cancer surgery remains the primary curative treatment for most solid cancers and has major therapeutic implications for patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). Anatomical and functional imaging technologies are widely used during the pre- and postoperative stages, but intraoperative disease …
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Quality of life following surgery for breast and coloretal cancer
Background. Colorectal and breast cancers are two of the commonest malignant diseases. The approach to these two cancers is markedly different with patients suffering from breast cancer having the benefits of screening, specialist nurses and support groups. In contrast, colorectal cancer has …
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