Nursing protocol: malignant tumours in older patients

Surgical management of malignant soft tissue tumours in patients aged 65 years or older.

OBJECTIVE With the aim to determine the most effective treatment for primary malignant musculoskeletal tumours in patients aged 65 years or older, we reviewed cases of low- and high-grade neoplasms, surgical margins, surgical methods, and the prognoses of elderly and aged patients at our institution. METHODS Records of 25 patients aged 65 years or older who had malignant soft tissue tumours f...

Malignant tumours in Malaya.

THE Malay Peninsula, with its mixed population of Malays, Chinese and Indians, is a useful field in which to study the racial distribution of cancers, and in the past, the Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur has been advantageously situated in this respect. Up to 1964 it provided a central surgical pathology service for all the state hospitals outside Singapore and Johore Bahru, incl...

“Malignant Brain Tumours.”

This book attempts and to a great extent achieves, its apparent object to review brain tumours in a comprehensive manner. It is a series of chapters by appropriate experts ranging in subject from molecular genetics, through clinical presentation, investigations to the various forms of management. It is up-to-date. The book's editors are well known and credible-a neurosurgeon and a neuropatholog...

Malignant tumours in the neonate.

One hundred and two cases of neonatal cancers, representing 2% of all paediatric malignancies, were seen during a 60 year period at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. The neonatal cancers included neuroblastoma (47%), retinoblastoma (17%), soft tissue sarcoma (12%), central nervous system tumours (9%), leukaemia (8%), and a few cases of Wilms' tumour, liver tumour, and miscellaneo...

Tumours Innocent and Malignant