Trajectories of emotional functioning and experienced care of relatives in the last year of life of patients with advanced cancer: A longitudinal analysis of the eQuiPe study.

Objective: Advanced cancer has a major impact on both patients and their relatives. To allow for personalized support, it is important to recognize which relatives will experience a decline in emotional functioning during the patient's last year of life, when this decline will occur, and what factors are associated with it. This study aimed to examine the trajectory of emotional functioning of relatives during that time and the characteristics associated with changes in this trajectory.

Application of three-dimensional computed tomography imaging and reconstructive techniques in lung surgery: A mini-review.

Background: Pulmonary surgery is an innovative discipline with increasing demands for minimally invasive techniques in complicated anatomical resections, warranting adequate preoperative imaging of relevant surgical anatomy to ensure safe and radical resection of target lesions. Over the recent years, the emergence of imaging techniques enabling three-dimensional reconstruction has exerted promising influence on pulmonary surgery, facilitating optimal surgical planning and easier identification of the spatial relationship between bronchovascular structures in the individual patient and aiding the safe resection of target pulmonary lesions. The goal of this mini-review is to provide an overview of three-dimensional computed tomography imaging within pulmonary surgery.

Emotional functioning during bereavement after the death of patients with advanced cancer and associated factors.

Objective: The death of a loved one is considered to be the most stressful of all life events. However, the impact of bereavement on quality of life varies between individuals. The aim of our study was to assess emotional functioning (EF), which is a domain of quality of life, of bereaved relatives after the death of their loved one and its associated factors.

Impact of Lung Cancer Treatment on Cognitive Functioning.

The impact of oncologic treatment for (non)-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC and SCLC, respectively) on cognition is relevant when deciding which treatment is the most preferable option, especially when curation is not possible. A systematic search of Medline and EMBASE for studies on the effect of treatment on cognition in patients with lung cancer was performed. A total of 39 longitudinal articles were included.

[Agranulocytosis/granulocytopenia after long-term use of thiamazole].

Agranulocytosis/granulocytopenia is a rare side effect of thyreostatics. Earlier publications state that for thiamazole this side effect occurs during the first few months of treatment. In two patients this thiamazole-induced agranulocytosis/granulocytopenia only occurred after years of treatment.