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Supportive care.
For cancer patients, quality of life and satisfaction with care are not only related to patient treatment facilities, but also to ambulatory care. Therefore, the goal of ambulatory care should be to prevent predictable morbidities, to eliminate residual morbidities when possible, to control symptoms, and to lessen discomfort when cure is not likely. Truly multidisciplinary services should be av...
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Dose and schedule are important factors in the therapy of cancer. Animal model and clinical data show that there is a significant correlation between dose-intensity and survival; moreover, the shortening of interval between chemotherapy cycles prevents from tumor regrowth and maximize the effect of chemotherapy on cancer cells (Gregory SA, Trumper L, 2005). Most of anti-cancer drugs are non-sel...
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Introduction Over the past 35 or more years, mature and immature allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic cells collected from the PB3 have been used in the supportive care management of patients with therapy or disease-induced intermittent, recurrent, and often prolonged periods of BM suppression. Clinical, laboratory, and technological research has been directed into the cellular contents of t...
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The Supportive Care Framework for Cancer Care was originally formulated in 1994 (Fitch, 1994). The framework was designed as a tool for cancer care professionals and program managers to conceptualize what type of help cancer patients might require and how planning for service delivery might be approached. The framework has been presented in various arenas and the number of requests has been gro...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1556-0864
DOI: 10.1097/01.jto.0000391371.86753.d9