Prostate cancer is the most common in men Poland. The choice of treatment method depends on many factors, including stage disease, patient's age, life expectancy, presence comorbidities and general condition patient. Hormone therapy one basic methods prostate treatment, both adjuvant palliative treatment. Castration-resistant an incurable disease. However, introduction new hormonal drugs to sig...

For elderly patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer, therapeutic approaches and outcomes in a modern cohort are not well characterized. Patients ≥70 years old with clinical stage II and III esophageal cancer diagnosed between 1998 and 2012 were identified from the National Cancer Database and stratified based on treatment type. Variables associated with treatment utilization were evalu...

OBJECTIVE Metastatic tumors of the mandible are rare and usually present clinically as growths. The prognosis of lung cancer patients with bone metastases is poor. CASE REPORT This article shows a metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the lung affecting the mandible of a 75-year-old female patient where the metastatic lesion was detected before primary tumor. The patient were treated with radiati...

The focus of palliative care is to alleviate pain and suffering for patients, potentially while they concurrently pursue life-prolonging or curative therapy. The potential breadth of palliative care is recognized by the Medicare program, but the Medicare hospice benefit is narrowly defined and limited to care that is focused on comfort and not on cure. Any organization or setting that has been ...

Clivus is a rare location for metastasis. We report patient with lung cancer presented to us diplopia and headache. He was found have clival metastasis treated palliative radiation therapy clivus. Metastasis also differential be considered when patients present lesion.

BACKGROUND The use of music as therapy in multidisciplinary end-of-life care dates back to the 1970s and nowadays music therapy (MT) is one of the most frequently used complementary therapy in in-patient palliative care in the US. However existing research investigated music therapy's potential impact mainly from one perspective, referring to either a quantitative or qualitative paradigm. The a...