Chinese Medicines Treatment for Sleep Disturbance in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Network Meta-Analysis.

Background: Sleep disturbance and insomnia are common adverse events in patients with breast cancer (BC). Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment for sleep disturbance includes acupuncture, acupressure, auricular acupressure/auricular acupuncture, and Qigong. However, the specific efficacy of these TCM treatment remains unclear.

Using Virtual Reality in a Rehabilitation Program for Patients With Breast Cancer: Phenomenological Study.

Background: Surgery is an essential treatment for early-stage breast cancer. However, various side effects of breast cancer surgery, such as arm dysfunction and lymphedema, remain causes for concern. Rehabilitation exercises to prevent such side effects should be initiated within 24 hours after surgery.

Metronomic vinorelbine is an excellent and safe treatment for advanced breast cancer: a retrospective, observational study.

Advanced breast cancer (ABC) has become a chronic disease. In such a situation, an effective therapy with low toxicities and economically acceptable is needed. Metronomic vinorelbine (mVNR) has been proved to be effective on the control of MBC.

Long-term survival and prognostic implications of patients with invasive breast cancer in southern Taiwan.

Our objective in this study was to determine the survival rate of patients with invasive breast cancer and identify the prognostic factors related to all-cause mortality during a 10-year follow-up.Analysis was performed on the medical records of 2002 patients newly diagnosed with breast cancer at a medical center in southern Taiwan between 2006 and 2017. The Kaplan-Meier method and Cox regression analysis were used to estimate survival and the independence of prognostic factors associated with all-cause mortality.

The effects of aromatherapy massage on improvement of anxiety among patients receiving palliative care: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Background: Anxiety in patients receiving palliative care is a noteworthy concern because it may affect their quality of life. Aromatherapy has been widely utilized to improve anxiety among patients receiving palliative care.

Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of anxiety improvement in patients receiving palliative care by comparing the intervention group (aromatherapy massage) with the control group (common massage alone).

Music intervention for pain and anxiety management of the primiparous women during labour: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aims: To determine the effect of music on the management of pain and anxiety in primiparous women during labour.

Background: Music is cost-effective intervention in clinical practice to reduce pain, stress, and anxiety. However, a systematic review with meta-analysis for investigating its effects during labour is still lacking.

Risk factors associated with newly psychiatric disorder in spinal cord injury: A retrospective cohort study.

Aim And Objectives: To predict the risk factors related to newly diagnosed psychiatric disorders resulting from spinal cord injuries (SCIs).

Background: SCIs are a common result of devastating accidents; they can have an essential negative impact on the psychological health of those so afflicted. Psychiatric disorders commonly occur worldwide and are often associated with pain and disability; however, few studies have investigated the risk factors of psychiatric disorders among persons with SCIs.

Post-mastectomy radiotherapy benefits subgroups of breast cancer patients with T1-2 tumor and 1-3 axillary lymph node(s) metastasis.

Background: To determine the role of postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) in breast cancer patients with T1-2 and N1 disease.

Patients And Methods: A total of 207 postmastectomy women were enrolled. The 5-year Kaplan-Meier estimates of locoregional recurrence rate (LRR), distant recurrence rate (DRR) and overall survival (OS) were analyzed by different tumor characteristics.

An evaluation of focal adhesion kinase in breast cancer by tissue microarrays.

Background: Many studies have shown that focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a positive regulator of tumor progression and invasion. However, there is still very limited information about the role of FAK in breast cancer. Tissue microarrays (TMA) can analyze thousands of tissue samples in a parallel fashion with minimal damage to the origin block.

Yes-associated protein is not an independent prognostic marker in breast cancer.

Background: The development of tissue microarray (TMA) technology has provided the opportunity to perform analyses of tissue samples on a large scale in an uniform fashion. This study was designed with the use of TMA to explore the Yes-associated protein (YAP) status in breast cancer.

Patients And Methods: YAP expression in tumor and tumor-free samples from 94 patients with primary breast cancer was analyzed by TMA.

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in the management of post-thyroidectomy tracheomalacia.

Background: Post-thyroidectomy tracheomalacia is a rare but complicated problem. It has often been treated with tracheostomy or prolonged endotracheal intubation. However, noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) has been successfully employed with increasing frequency in patients with respiratory failure from other causes.

Clustered microcalcifications of intermediate concern detected on digital mammography: ultrasound assessment.

To report our experience with targeted-ultrasound in assessing 142 cases with clustered microcalcifications of intermediate concern detected on digital mammography. All cases had histopathologically-proven microcalcifications within the biopsied or surgical specimens. There were 30%[43/142] breast cancers and 70%[99/142] benign lesions.

Weekly paclitaxel combining with gemcitabine is an effective and safe treatment for advanced breast cancer patients.

Objective: Patients with metastatic breast cancer usually accept several lines of chemotherapy. This retrospective study is to analyze the therapeutic effect and tolerance of weekly paclitaxel/gemcitabine combination on patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Methods: Paclitaxel 80 mg/m(2) and gemcitabine 800 mg/m(2) were administered sequentially on days 1, 8 and 15 every 28 days.

Hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy--preliminary experience in southern Taiwan.

Background: A hand-assisted laparoscopic procedure allows the surgeon to insert the nondominant hand into the abdomen, and helps to recover the tactile sensation. For a massively enlarged spleen, this technique overcomes difficulty in conventional laparoscopic splenectomy. The advantages of minimally-invasive surgery can still be preserved.

Quadrapod mesh for posterior wall reconstruction in adult inguinal hernias.

Inguinal hernia repairs are the most frequently carried out operations worldwide, and open-mesh herniorrhaphies have gained wide acceptance for advantages of little tension, less pain and lower recurrence rates. Even so, potential drawbacks of original open-mesh repairs exist, and we accordingly make some modifications, suggesting a new 'quadrapod' marlex mesh as an alternative. From July 2002 to March 2004, we carried out 288 consecutive inguinal hernia repairs using quadrapod mesh in 273 patients, all of them were male and aged older than 35 years.

Partial splenectomy for benign splenic cysts with the aid of a Lin clamp: technical note.

Background: Spleen-preserving procedures deserve every effort by surgeons to reduce the risk of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection. Partial splenectomy at hospitals with restricted sources remains technically demanding. We describe our method of partial splenectomy for benign splenic cysts with the aid of a Lin clamp.

Intestinal obstruction caused by intraoperative mass reduction of an incarcerated inguinal hernia--report of a case.

Now that inguinal hernia repair is a feasible and safe procedure, mass reduction of an incarcerated inguinal hernia, usually resulting from forceful taxis during non-operative manual reduction, has became a rare occurrence. We present an even rarer complication: intraoperative mass reduction of an incarcerated inguinal hernia. Following herniorrhaphy, the patient was initially well, but symptoms of intestinal obstruction appeared gradually, and he presented with intestinal obstruction 2 weeks after herniorrhaphy.