Cancer is a disease of older adults, and with unprecedented growth in the number of people entering late adulthood, an increasing need exists for specialized services and programs to address the needs of older adults with cancer. Few examples in the literature detail development of a geriatric oncology program. This article describes a pilot project undertaken by a community cancer center to de...

purpose: nowadays cancer patients want more detailed information and greater participation in decisions about their care. as a consequence, the demands on health care system to satisfy the complex care needs of oncology patients have increased tremendously. methods and materials: as part of a quality improvement exercise at the radiation oncology department, allan blair cancer center, regina, s...

1Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Institute of Cancer, Barts and the London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom; 3Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 4Leukemia Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 5Department of P...

This study aimed to discover to what extent ethical issues are considered in the reimbursement decision process based on health technology assessment (HTA) in Korea, especially for oncology medications. Public summary documents (PSDs) published by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) were analyzed for empirical and normative factors. For external comparison, PSDs presented ...

A. Berruti1, E. Baudin2, H. Gelderblom3, H. R. Haak4, F. Porpiglia5, M. Fassnacht6 & G. Pentheroudakis7 on behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* Medical Oncology, Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino, Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria San Luigi, Orbassano, Italy; Service de Médecine Nucléaire et de Cancerologie Endocrinienne, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Univ...

Drug Utilization Evaluation (DUE) studies facilitate assessing the appropriateness and rational use of medications.The goal of the present study was to evaluate Amphotericin B usage in neutropenic patients. A prospective DUE study was performed in Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation wards at Taleghani hospital for one-year. National comprehensive cancer network, clinical practice ...

This paper intends to describe the demand for referrals stomatology service requested by medical teams inpatients in a reference hospital south of Brazil. research is retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study focusing on data collection and assessment information about unit carried out from January 2008 December 2018. All was obtained management software database, then transferred analyze...

a Digestive Diseases Branch, NIH, Bethesda, Md. , USA; b Service d’Hépato-Gastroentérologie, CHU de Reims, Hôpital Robert Debré, Reims , France; c University of Florence, Florence , Italy; d Department of Endocrinology, Erasmus MC University, Rotterdam , The Netherlands; e Department of Pathophysiology, National University of Athens, Athens , Greece; f Institute of Pathology, Stadtspital Trieml...

Drug Utilization Evaluation (DUE) studies facilitate assessing the appropriateness and rational use of medications.The goal of the present study was to evaluate Amphotericin B usage in neutropenic patients. A prospective DUE study was performed in Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation wards at Taleghani hospital for one-year. National comprehensive cancer network, clinical practice ...