Tag: Cancer: Misc.
Checklist Developed for Parents of Children With Cancer
Checklist covers primary, secondary, and tertiary topics that should be taught at different points
Five Healthy Lifestyle Habits Could Add >10 Years to Life
Reduced risk for all-cause, cancer, cardiovascular mortality for adults with five vs. zero low-risk factors
Potentially Inappropriate Meds Use Prevalent in Cancer Patients
But baseline potentially inappropriate medication use has no correlation with most poor clinical outcomes
Art Intervention May Be Beneficial for Cancer Patients
Brief bedside session associated with improved positive mood, pain scores and decreased anxiety
Proactive Swallowing Rehab Program Helpful in Phalangeal CA
Increase in pretreatment evaluations and in the rate of referral; reduction in feeding tube placement
Multiple Myeloma Risk May Be Up for WTC-Exposed Firefighters
And, cancer burden projected to be greater than expected for world trade center-exposed firefighters
Cancer Screening More Likely After a Previous False Positive
Findings for both men and women with a false-positive prostate or breast cancer test result
Polypharmacy More Likely for Cancer Survivors
More cancer survivors prescribed five or more unique medications, including those with abuse potential
Cellular Biomedical Tattoo Can ID Hypercalcemia-Linked Cancer
Hypercalcemia linked to cancer can be detected in murine model using cell-based diagnostic system
Males With BRCA Mutations Have Increased Risk of Certain Cancers
Increased incidence of malignant disease, specifically prostate, melanoma, pancreas, breast cancers
