INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE During acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment, oral mucositis is a hugely important dental problem. In order to lower the risk of such complications, patients should take special care of their oral hygiene. The aim of this study was to assess the oral hygiene status in children with ALL during anti-cancer treatment protocols. MATERIALS AND METHODS 78 children with A...

BACKGROUND Increasing survival rates for children with brain tumors creates a greater need for neuropsychologic follow-up and intervention. The aim of this study was to evaluate rates of referral by medical doctors to neuropsychologic services and patient and treatment factors that differentiated referred and nonreferred patients. METHODS Data were retrieved from medical records of all pediat...

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Regional chemotherapy was first used for lung cancer 30 years ago. Since then, new methods of drug delivery and pharmaceuticals have been investigated in vitro, and in animals and humans. An extensive review of drug delivery systems, pharmaceuticals, patient monitoring, methods of enhancing inhaled drug deposition, safety and efficacy, and also additional applications of inhaled chemotherapy an...

A number of antineoplastic drugs are used to combat with different types of cancer which have also shown to be mutagenic in various test systems. Various antineoplastic drugs such as cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, Tamoxifrn Genecitabine and Paclitaxel etc have shown to be clastogenic effects in various test systems (Garrone et al., 1993; Takeda et al., 2001; Padmalatha Rai and Vijaylakhmi, 2001; ...

conclusions the results illustrate that the iranian version of the aep (ir-aep) could be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing the level of inappropriate acute hospital admissions and days of care in the iranian context. results inter-rater and intra-rater reliability testing revealed an excellent level of consensus between the two nurses employing the aep in all the studied departments...