recall activity: what happens before and after basal cell carcino-mas’ surgery?

Recall Activity: What Happens before and after Basal Cell Carcino-mas’ Surgery?

Recall Activity: What Happens Before and After Basal Cell Carcinomas’ Surgery?

We performed one of the most extensive study in scientific literature (3,957 excisions, 2,358 patients) about basal cell carcinoma (BCC) focusing on the behavioral patterns,1 the risk factors associated to incomplete excisions,2 and the following preferred surgical management.2 The data about each patient and each surgery were carefully organized in a Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (Microsoft Corp...

What happens before chemotherapy ?

Modern medical cancer interventions are allowing for greater survival rates. A chemotherapy side-effect, where patients report difficulty during performance of familiar cognitive tasks, is named chemo fog or chemobrain. Traditional neuropsychological assessments may not be sensitive enough to detect these subtle chemotherapy-related cognitive impairments (or CRCI). The advent of MRI and fMRI to...

What Happens Before?

Little is known about how discrimination manifests before individuals formally apply to organizations or how it varies within and between organizations. We address this knowledge gap through an audit study in academia of over 6,500 professors at top U.S. universities drawn from 89 disciplines and 259 institutions. In our experiment, professors were contacted by fictional prospective students se...

What Happens before Requirements Engineering?

Welcome to the Children’s Services Planning Group! Here our task is to find a way of integrating all the various specialist agencies –social services, education, health and so on– that provide support for children with problems or special needs, so that children and their families see us operating as a team, working together with the best interest of the child at heart, instead of the old way o...

What happens to patients undergoing lung cancer surgery? Outcomes and quality of life before and after surgery.

OBJECTIVE To compare baseline preoperative and 6-month postoperative functional health status and quality of life in patients undergoing lung cancer resection. METHODS Lung cancer surgery patients from three hospitals were administered the Short-Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) and the Ferrans and Powers' quality-of-life index (QLI) before surgery and 6 months after surgery. Preoperative, intrao...