Introduction: COVID-19 implied that a great number of infected individuals were hospitalized and possibly admitted to intensive care units. Cancer centers have rapidly changed models by delaying non-urgent surgeries. Breast surgeries delayed for early breast cancer patients forcing clinicians potentially alter treatment recommendations neo-adjuvant chemotherapy until appropriate conditions esta...

BACKGROUND A relationship has been suggested between kidney or ureter stones and the development of urinary tract cancers. In this study, a population-based cohort of patients hospitalized for kidney or ureter stones in Sweden was followed for up to 25 years to examine subsequent risks for developing renal cell, renal pelvis/ureter, or bladder cancer. METHODS Data from the national Swedish In...

PURPOSE Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is an increasingly frequent complication of cancer and its treatments, and is associated with worsened mortality and morbidity in patients with cancer. DESIGN The Italian Association of Medical Oncology, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the French National Federation of the League of Centers Against Canc...

Objective This study was designed to examine the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, construct, and concurrent validity of the Trust in Nurses Scale (TNS) in hospitalized patients with cancer in China. Methods Between October and December 2016, the Chinese version of TNS and Nurse-Patient Trust Scale were applied to assess 190 patients with cancer in a general hospital. A subsample...

BACKGROUND It has been demonstrated that most patients in the terminal stages of cancer would benefit from palliative home-care services. AIM The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of appropriate palliative home-care services in reducing hospital admissions, and to identify factors predicting the likelihood of patients treated at home being hospitalized. DESIGN Retrospective ...

OBJECTIVES Studies reporting cancer risk after PMR and GCA are few, but it remains an issue of both concern and controversy. We examined the overall and specific cancer risks among Swedish subjects following hospitalization for these diseases. METHODS PMR and GCA patients were identified from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register and by linking them with the Cancer Registry. Follow-up of pa...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : the present study aimed to investigate the influence of histological factors on survival of patients with esophageal cancer. background : esophageal cancer is almost the common form of malignancy in the eastern world. patients and methods : through a retrospective cohort study a consecutive series of 134 patients wit...