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Filter by:The overall goal of the project is to pilot test CTNow, a multilevel intervention designed to facilitate access and referrals to cancer clinical trials in rural areas through patient and provider education and teleconference resources.
Predicting the response of patients diagnosed with cancer to cytokinotherapy is essential to guide anti-tumor therapy complex strategy and subsequent adjuvant approach. Cytokinotherapy is a cost-effective, well-known available method of therapy for the patients with tumors. The objective response possibly correlates to the tumor's size, aggressiveness, age, and other primary factors. Multifactor analysis requires a large amount of data. Therefore, the investigators created the first database aimed to collect data concerning the patients with cancer and the clinical outcomes of cytokinogenetic therapy. The acquired data must be processed to detect the key factors effecting the outcomes. The rationale is that cytokinotherapy is a universal therapeutic approach, although the absence of information that can help personalize it and decrease the rate of progression. The main goal is to find the relationship between initial patients' characteristics and effectiveness of cytokinotherapy for early risks detectioon. The predictive models that can be elaborated from the TCTD-1 analysis will complement knowledge of cytokinotherapy rationale. Predicting survival or other significant clinical criteria using TCTD-1 analysis results would greatly benefit the cancer patients' management.
The study investigates the impact of nutritional status on the clinical outcomes of cancer patients in Shaanxi Province undergoing chemoradiotherapy. It focuses on understanding how diet and nutrition affect the effectiveness and side effects of cancer treatments.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of daily use of a walking platform to improve recovery of preoperative walking speed at hospital discharge following oncological surgery in patients aged 65 or older.
Polymedication in palliative oncology care is a real public health problem. This phenomenon has been shown to increase the risk of iatrogenesis, reduce patients' quality of life and increase healthcare costs. For many years, health policies have been developed in geriatrics to reduce polymedication through deprescription tools. Recently, palliative care initiatives have been introduced, but without having studied the potential specificities of this population (younger, with a different care dynamic and life trajectory). It is important to better understand this population's perceptions of deprescribing in order to adapt tools/actions to make these approaches more efficient. The primary aim of this study is to investigate patients' perceptions of deprescribing in palliative cancer care, and the secondary aim is to investigate factors that may influence patients' attitudes and beliefs about deprescribing. At the same time, we will study the psychometric properties of the rPATD (Revised Patients' Attitudes Towards Deprescribing) in this population (a standardized questionnaire validated in geriatric medicine to assess patients' perceptions of deprescription).An ancillary study will be carried out to investigate the link between patients' health literacy and their perception of deprescribing (health literacy is defined as the ability to acquire, understand and use information in ways that promote and maintain good health). To meet our objectives, we will conduct a 3-year national, prospective, observational, multicenter study with an exploratory sequential mixed design. The study will comprise an initial qualitative phase. Semi-directed individual interviews using a descriptive approach will be carried out (around 25 patients, over an 8-month period). Following analysis of the qualitative data, we will then carry out a quantitative study to determine the distribution of the different profiles within this population and the factors influencing the perception of deprescription. The self-administered questionnaires, rPATD and BMQ (medication beliefs questionnaire), potentially supplemented by other items following analysis of the qualitative data, will be administered to 300 patients (over a 12-month period).The ancillary study will be carried out during this second phase, using a validated self-questionnaire to assess patients' level of literacy. Thanks to the different results, we will improve our knowledge of the perception of deprescription in palliative oncology care, in order to develop approaches adapted to the specificities of our population to reduce polymedication and thus improve the quality of life of our patients and reduce the risks of iatrogenia.
This research will be conducted to evaluate the effect of the escape room game activity applied to nursing students taking oncology nursing courses on their academic self-efficacy and critical thinking motivation.
This study will gather data from new and existing patients with patient medical records, and patient/family/caregiver reported information to establish a clear natural history of disease suitable to serve as an external, contemporary or historical control arm for future therapeutic development programs of drugs, devices, or biologic interventions in DMG or DIPG.
The study aims to assess the dynamics of incidence and mortality for all major groups of cancers for which the national data is available for the longest possible time series. The data obtained from publicly available sources are used.
The main aim of this study was to evaluate clinically the effect of a combination between oral vitamin D and oral zinc in comparison to conventional therapy in prevention of radiotherapy-induced oral mucositis in Assiut University Hospitals.
This proposed pilot randomised controlled trial aims to examine the effect of mobile health-delivered music breathing therapy in enhancing resilience, reducing psychological distress and caregiver strain, and improving the coping and quality of life of parental caregivers of children newly diagnosed with cancer.