August 2019 - 31 articles
Background: Cancer patients experience multiple symptoms throughout their illness, and some report benefit from the use of cannabis. There are concerns that many patients are accessing products inappropriate for their situation and potentially puttin...
Background: Gliomas are the most dreaded primary brain tumour because of their dismal cure rates. Ketogenic-type diets (kds) are high-fat, low-protein, and low-carbohydrate diets; the modified Atkins diet (mad) is a less-stringent version of a kd tha...
Background: Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) in women with known unilateral breast cancer (BCA) has been increasing despite the lack of supportive evidence. The purpose of the present study was to identify the determinants of CPM in women...
Objective: Paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome (pns) is a rare condition indirectly caused by an underlying malignancy. In many cases, the malignancy is occult at the time of the pns diagnosis, and the optimal diagnostic modality to detect the underly...
Background: Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PCM) in metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (MPDAC) is frequently encountered in day-to-day practice, but rarely addressed in the literature. The objective of the present study was to describe the manag...
Background: Follicular lymphoma (FL) is the most common indolent lymphoma and the 2nd most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma, accounting for 10%–20% of all lymphomas in the Western world. Epidemiologic and geographic trends of FL in Canada have not been in...
Background: Patient experience is often measured quantitatively, but that approach has limitations for understanding the entire experience. Qualitative methods can help to understand more complex issues most important to patients and their families....
Background: In the present study, we investigated the emotional, physical, financial, occupational, practical, and quality-of-life impacts on caregivers of patients with mining-related lung cancer. Methods: This concurrent, embedded, mixed-methods st...
Background: The collection of patient reported outcomes (PROS) is a standard of care in many cancer organizations. In Alberta, pros have been integrated into routine clinical practice since 2012. This longitudinal collection of pros provides a wealth...
Introduction: Radiation oncology (ro) is one of several specialties identified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada with employment difficulties for graduating trainees. The purpose of the present study was to determine the emplo...
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