Publications by authors named "Zhaleh Moghaddam"
Background: With improving survival rates, cancer has become more of a chronic disease with long-term palliative care requirements. Thus, it is even more than ever necessary to pay careful attention to the well-being of family caregivers of cancer patients, as cancer trajectory is a challenging path for both patients and their caregivers. This study focusses on ascertaining the level of quality of life (QoL) domains and their attributable significant factors among a population of cancer family caregivers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chemoradiotherapy complications has always been of great concern to both clinicians and patients during the course of treatment. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of oral famotidine on the reduction of hematologic complications of patients with esophageal and gastric cardia cancers undergoing radiotherapy.
Methods: A single-blind controlled trial was conducted on 60 patients with esophageal and cardia cancers, who were undergoing chemoradiotherapy.
Background: Side effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients need to be investigated in more detail.
Aim: To determine the incidence of cardiotoxicity in patients treated with different chemotherapy regimens containing 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in Zanjan, Iran.
Patients And Methods: In a prospective cohort study, patients with different types of solid gastrointestinal tumors who were candidates for 5-FU based chemotherapy regimens were enrolled.