Global unmet psychosocial needs in cancer care: health policy.

Unlabelled: Preventable psychosocial suffering is an unmet need in patients with cancer around the world, significantly compromising quality of life and impairing cancer health outcomes. This narrative review overviews the global prevalence of emotional distress and cancer-related needs and the access barriers to psychosocial care. The COVID-19 pandemic has served only to amplify the need for psychosocial care, exacerbating the inadequacy of available psychosocial resources, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

Mortality attributable to diabetes in Cuba: Estimates for 2019.

Objective: To estimate the national and provincial number of excess deaths due to diabetes across Cuba in 2019.

Study Design: Cross-sectional design with secondary data.

Methods: We used DISMODII, a computerized generic disease model, to assess disease burden by modelling the relationships between incidence, prevalence, and disease-specific mortality.

An acute coronary syndrome in an unusual patient: analysing cisplatin toxicity-a case report and review of the literature.

Background: Germ cell tumours (GCT) are the most common malignancy affecting young adult men. The introduction of cisplatin-based chemotherapy in recent decades has significantly changed the prognosis of these malignant tumours into highly curable cancer, even in the setting of advanced disease. However, in the last decade, the success of these chemotherapy regimens in curing GCTs has been slowed by a growing recognition of their important late toxicities, such as cardiovascular disease.