Family Caregivers' Burden, Patients' Resourcefulness, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Colorectal Cancer.

Objectives: To examine how family caregivers' burden and patients' resourcefulness influence each other and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with colorectal cancer.

Sample & Setting: This study was conducted in an outpatient clinic at a medical center in Taichung, Taiwan. A total of 84 patient-caregiver dyads were recruited, and 43 patients had advanced-stage cancer.

The effectiveness of music in relieving pain in cancer patients: a randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: To examine effects of sedative music on cancer pain.

Design: A randomized controlled trial.

Settings: Two large medical centers in Kaoshiung City, in southern Taiwan.

Parotid tumors: a 10-year experience.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to analyze the clinical presentation, histopathology, and complications of parotid tumors, as well as the management of malignant parotid tumors.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 271 patients who underwent parotidectomy from August 1996 to July 2006. Data including age, sex, clinical signs and symptoms, histologic findings, complications, malignant tumor stage, and prognosis were collected from medical charts.