Long-term outcomes among localized prostate cancer survivors: prospective predictors for return-to-work three years after cancer rehabilitation.

Purpose: This study aimed at (1) investigating the work status of men treated by radical prostatectomy due to diagnosis of localized prostate cancer (LPCa) three years after having attended a cancer rehabilitation program and (2) identifying prospective risk factors for not working at this time point.

Methods: In a longitudinal, questionnaire-based multicenter study, 519 working-age LPCa survivors reported on their work status 12 and 36 months following rehabilitation. Chi-square tests/t tests and multivariable logistic regression analysis were used to identify prospective factors associated with not working at 36 months follow-up.

Identifying Expectations of Delayed Return to Work in Patients with Prostate Cancer at the Beginning of a Cancer Rehabilitation Program.

Purpose To investigate factors associated with expectations of delayed return to work (RTW) in patients with prostate cancer recently admitted to a cancer rehabilitation program. Methods In this multicenter study, data about expected time until RTW and potential correlates (personal, medical, psychosocial and work-related factors) were obtained from 822 employed cancer rehabilitation participants at the beginning of the program. Participants expecting early RTW (≤ 3 months) and delayed RTW (> 3 months) were compared.

Return to work in prostate cancer survivors - findings from a prospective study on occupational reintegration following a cancer rehabilitation program.

Background: This prospective multicentre-study aimed to analyze return to work (RTW) among prostate cancer survivors 12 months after having attended a cancer rehabilitation program and to identify risk factors for no and late RTW.

Methods: Seven hundred eleven employed prostate cancer survivors treated with radical prostatectomy completed validated self-rating questionnaires at the beginning, the end, and 12 months post rehabilitation. Disease-related data was obtained from physicians and medical records.

Outcomes across the return-to-work process in PC survivors attending a rehabilitation measure-results from a prospective study.

Purpose: Approximately 60% of patients are able to work following a cancer diagnosis. The return-to-work (RTW) process after disability can be conceptualized as a multi-phase construct. This study investigated RTW outcomes throughout the RTW process among survivors of prostate cancer (PC) attending a cancer rehabilitation measure.

[Rehabilitation Processes in Out- and Inpatient Rehabilitation after Radical Prostatectomy].

We evaluated processes in in- and outpatient rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy. Overall, we analyzed motivation and expectations of 119 in- and 719 outpatients (aged≤64) at the beginning of rehabilitation as well as satisfaction and the amount of interventions at the end. Compared to inpatients outpatients had a higher socio-economic status and better physical condition.

Psychosocial and physical outcomes of in- and outpatient rehabilitation in prostate cancer patients treated with radical prostatectomy.

Purpose: A radical prostatectomy might lead to an impaired quality of life. Aim of the study was to analyse the impact of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation on psychosocial and physical outcomes in patients after surgery.

Methods: Six hundred nineteen inpatients and 95 outpatients, treated for localized prostate cancer by prostatectomy, completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and two quality-of-life questionnaires (EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-PR25) at the beginning and end of rehabilitation as well as 12 months after rehabilitation.

[Psychosocial predictors of utilization of medical rehabilitation services among prostate cancer patients].

Purpose: Prostate cancer patients often suffer from treatment-associated morbidities which lead to severe physical and mental impairments. Nevertheless, only a relatively small percentage of this patient population uses medical rehabilitation services; there is still a lack of evidence concerning possible factors causing use and non-use of services. Therefore, this study exploratively aims at the identification of predictors of the use of rehabilitation services in a cohort of prostate cancer patients.

[Sensitivity and specificity of CEA, Ca 15-3 and MCA levels in visceral breast carcinoma metastasis].

The determination of mucin like carcinoma associated antigen (MCA) showed a sensitivity of 72% in visceral metastasis of breast cancer, of 25% in metastasis of stomach cancer and of 10.3% in metastasis of colorectal cancer. The sensitivity of CA 15-3 was 83% (n.

[Necrotizing panniculitis in pancreatitis].

A 46-year old man developed subcutaneous fat necrosis of the right upper thigh in association with pancreatitis. The panniculitis established by biopsy resolved 4 years later. Subcutaneous nodular fat necrosis is a rare dermatological manifestation of pancreatitis or pancreas carcinoma which may be clinically indistinguishable from erythema nodosum.

Intracellular distribution of adenine and 5-hydroxytryptamine in megakaryocytes isolated by density gradient and velocity sedimentation from bone marrow.

Megakaryocytes were isolated from rat and guinea pig bone marrow by Percoll density and/or elutriator centrifugation. As compared with the suspension of bone marrow an enrichment of factor 530 with a recovery of 34% can be achieved if a combination of both methods is applied.--The pattern of DNA percentage distribution in isolated cells paralleled the polyploidy found in megakaryocytes of the bone marrow.