BACKGROUND Although parents experience the death of adult children diagnosed with cancer, most of the literature on adult child death has examined the issues of violent death or suicide. Where death from cancer has been studied, the focus has been mainly on psychological outcomes. Little is known about parents' experiences with this phenomenon. OBJECTIVE To understand parents' experience of h...

UNLABELLED HCC is the third cause of cancer-related death worldwide and the fifth most common cancer in the world with an increasing incidence in some areas like Europe, USA and the Gulf region. In this study patients with advanced HCC in both group child pugh A and B were treated with sorafenib. METHODS This is a retrospective observational study to assess the safety and effectiveness of sor...

OBJECTIVE To describe the experience of parenting a child diagnosed with cancer by examining particularly negative and positive experiences reported by parents of childhood cancer survivors and parents of children lost to cancer. METHODS 168 parents (88 mothers, 80 fathers) participated. Data were collected five years after the end of successful treatment or the child's death. The parents' ex...

Children with cancer experience fragmented school attendance during treatment. Telepresence robots that connect them treatment periods were explored through an intervention involving participant observation followed by semi-structured interviews from 2020–22 children cancer, their class teachers, and classmates. We used abductive approach, inspired the Agential Realism theory Situational Analys...

Parent-child communication about sexual health is considered an effective strategy for encouraging safe sexual practices among youth. This study used a brief survey to examine mother-child communication among 86 antenatal clinic attendees in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighty-five percent of mothers reported having enough information to discuss HIV/AIDS prevention with their children, while onl...

OBJECTIVE To identify patterns of distress among mothers of children with cancer over the initial 6 months of treatment and to examine these patterns as predictors of child somatic and emotional distress. METHOD Data were gathered regarding maternal perceived stress and affective distress from mothers of children (N = 65, mean age = 8.3 years) with cancer at 2 to 5 weeks postdiagnosis, then a...

OBJECTIVE This review examines stress and its consequences on attention and working memory, stress symptoms in parents of child cancer patients and survivors and long-term consequences of stress on cognitive processing in parents of child cancer survivors. METHOD Eligible studies were experimental, meta-analyses, and qualitative (2000-2013) from Pubmed, Medline, the Cochrane Library, PsycArti...

fungal infections of the gastrointestinal tract are not common in children, especially in immunocompetent ones. in this case report we describe a child who was presented with abdominal pain and mass, bloody diarrhea and fever. he was treated for amebiasis, but due to treatment failure and deterioration of his condition, he underwent a laparatomy. histologic examination of the excised bowel in t...

Background: Understanding causes of death among children is crucial to decrease mortality rate. Identifying specific causes of under-five mortality help in developing possible prioritize preventive interventions. This study aimed to identify rates and common causes associated with child deaths in a Tertiary Care Centre in North Jordan. Materials and Methods: At a retrospective study, death regi...