The Coping and Support Needs of Incurable Cancer Patients.

The purposes of this study were to describe the coping processes and support needs of patients with incurable cancer. The study was conducted as a qualitative study. The research data were gathered by conducting thematic interviews with outpatients with incurable cancer (n = 16) and analyzed by means of inductive content analysis.

Serum pepsinogens I and II and gastric mucosal histology after partial gastrectomy.

We determined the effect of postgastrectomy gastritis on serum pepsinogen I and pepsinogen II concentrations in 108 subjects with subtotal gastric resection. Eleven had normal remnant mucosa, 22 had superficial gastritis, and 75 had atrophic gastritis. In the subjects with superficial gastritis, serum pepsinogen I and II concentrations were significantly higher than in those with normal remnant mucosa, but the ratio of pepsinogen I to II did not differ from normal.

Dynamics of chronic gastritis in the remnant after partial gastrectomy for duodenal ulcer.

Morphological changes in the remnant mucosa 2-20 years after operation for duodenal ulcer (DU) were analyzed in 124 male subjects by means of stochastic mathematics. Fifty non-operated male DU patients and 168 age-matched males from a population sample served as controls. Substantially no progression of gastritis was found in the DU patients.