A randomized, double-blind, multicenter, phase 2 study of a human monoclonal antibody to human a m integrins (intetumumab) in combination with docetaxel and prednisone for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer A. Heidenreich1,, S. K. Rawal2, K. Szkarlat3, N. Bogdanova4, L. Dirix5, A. Stenzl6, M. Welslau7, G. Wang8, F. Dawkins9, C. J. de Boer10...

this survey was performed on 45 oncology nurses in three hospitals, and cancer institute in tehran. the purpose of this study was investigating the stressors during the care of cancer patients and its importance from the oncology nurses’ view. data gathering tool was a questionnaire with 42 questions, according to research specific goals and had two parts. first part included demographic charac...

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are the main cause of catheter-related infections, especially among immunosuppressed and neutropenic patients, as well as a source of bacterial contamination in blood cultures. Using biochemical identification and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), we sought to identify possible clonal isolates of bacteremia in patients with central lines in an onco...

Cancer patients require care by a multidisciplinary medical team. Although nephrology usually is not the "core" specialty in such a multidisciplinary team, nonetheless it may substantially improve the quality of care. This paper reviews nephrologist's role in the management of the cancer patient.

OBJECTIVE To describe the outcomes and clinical experience of a 12-week pilot study of routine distress screening of newly admitted patients to an acute haematology and oncology ward. DESIGN, PATIENTS AND SETTING Bedside measurement of psychological distress, and collection of demographic and clinical data for 115 newly admitted patients in an acute haematology and oncology ward of The Alfred...

Four patients in an oncology ward developed Bacteroides fragilis bacteremia over a 12-day period. Cross-infection between two of them, due to an imipenem-resistant strain, was demonstrated by epidemiological investigation and genotypic typing methods (arbitrarily primed PCR fingerprinting and nucleotide sequencing of the cfiA genes and upstream IS1186/IS1168 elements).