Cancer patients assert that after chemotherapy their cognitive abilities have deteriorated. Cognitive stimulation is the clinical treatment of choice for reversing cognitive decline. The current study describes a computerized home-based cognitive stimulation program in patients who survived breast cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: ensure a good quality of life in the last phase of onco- hematological patients should be the primary goal, despite this, we have little data at European level and published studies are contradictory. Nevertheless, most of them agree saying that administrating chemotherapy near the end of life impacts negatively in the patients quality of life. The main objective of this study is to analyze the treatment non-aggressiveness parameters in onco-hematological patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Background: Brain metastases occur in about 30% of patients with non-small-cell lung carcinoma; seizures occur in approximately 20% of them. Antiepileptic drugs are commonly given for postoperative prophylaxis after brain or metastasis tumor surgery. The incidence of seizures following supratentorial craniotomy is estimated to be 15%-20%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt has been suggested that human papillomavirus (HPV) could participate in the development of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A higher HPV infection rate has been reported in the NSCLC samples from Asian non-smoker patients, with adenocarcinomas or responders to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKI). We explored a potential relationship between EGFR mutation, response to EGFR-TKI and HPV infection in Western NSCLC patients.
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