Background: The announcement of a cancer diagnosis represents a real turning point, significantly and pessimistically changing the patient's vision of his future. The task of the healthcare professional in communicating bad news is complex. It requires careful use of words, establishing a relationship of trust, a patient approach, and encouraging the person affected by cancer to express their emotions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: If in the past the relationship between caregiver and patient was paternalistic based on the principle of protection, the advent of health democracy has made this relationship evolve to build it on the principles of equality and autonomy for the patient. However, this practice leaves something to be desired, given the forms of inequality in access to information that mark the relationship between caregiver and cancer patient.
Materials And Methods: The objective of this qualitative study is to present a sociological view of the process of shaping inequalities in access to information and its determinants.
This article explores the rare case of an 82-year-old man diagnosed concurrently with essential thrombocythemia and smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM). The limited existing literature on individuals harboring both myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) and monoclonal gammopathy (MG) is of significant interest due to the distinct origins of these malignancies. The etiology of MG in MPN patients remains elusive, leading to speculation about a potential relationship or interplay between the two conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChemotherapy-induced posterior reversible encephalopathy (PRES) syndrome is a rare event. Its recurrence after reusing the incriminated molecules remains unpredictable. We report the case of a 58-year-old female patient being followed for a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin hydrochloride (doxorubicin hydrochloride), vincristine (Oncovin), and prednisone (R-CHOP) regimen.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction Bleomycin is a major antimitotic agent in the first-line treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. The main limitation of its use is its pulmonary toxicity. The objectives of this study are to find out the risk factors for the occurrence of bleomycin-induced lung toxicity in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma and, on the other hand, to determine if positron emission tomography scan is a reliable means of early detection of this toxicity.
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