So far, there has been little research into supportive care needs in patients with newly diagnosed incurable cancer and as their disease progresses. That is why experts from the German Cancer Society's working group on palliative ...
Mar 26, 2021
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Patients with incurable breast cancer remember more information about their treatment if their doctor is more empathic during consultations. These are the results of research by psychologists from Leiden University in collaboration ...
Nov 9, 2020
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Millions of patients with incurable breast cancer could benefit from Welsh-led research which shows it is possible to control the cancer for twice as long by combing an investigational therapy with standard treatment.
Jun 10, 2019
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Facing incurable breast cancer at age 55, MaryAnne DiCanto put her faith in "precision medicine—in which doctors try to match patients with drugs that target the genetic mutations in their tumors. She underwent repeated ...
Sep 21, 2018
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Follicular lymphoma is an incurable cancer that affects over 200,000 people worldwide every year. A form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, follicular lymphoma develops when the body starts making abnormal B-cells, which are white ...
Jun 28, 2017
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Children as young as 8 years old with incurable cancer can reliably characterize the impact an experimental therapy has on their symptoms and quality of life - even at the earliest stages of drug development - making self-reported ...
Jun 15, 2017
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Despite their nearness to death, a sizeable proportion of advanced cancer patients remain unaware of basic information about their illness or its treatment, researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine report. Reviewing test results ...
May 24, 2016
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Many patients with advanced, incurable cancer do not receive any palliative care, reveals new research to be presented later this month at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain, 26-30 September. The findings are astonishing ...
Sep 19, 2014
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Providing information about do-not-resuscitate instructions to terminally ill patients leads to fewer of them dying in a hospital environment, a University of Sydney study has found.
Oct 1, 2013
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Clinical researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have discovered why multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow, persistently escapes cure by an initially effective treatment that can keep the disease ...
Sep 9, 2013
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