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Characteristics of relapsed and refractory paediatric Hodgkin lymphoma; a 10-year retrospective study of an LMIC 复发和难治性儿科霍奇金淋巴瘤的特征；一项针对低收入国家的十年回顾性研究

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1729

Quratulain Riaz, Rabel Gul, Vashma Junaid, Wasfa Farooq, Naema Khayyam

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Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in a patient with BRCA1 mutation: a rare association 一名 BRCA1 基因突变患者的食管鳞状细胞癌：罕见的关联性

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1730

Mohammad Saad Salim Naviwala, Mirza Rameez Samar, Daania Shoaib, Fizza Akbar, Romana Idrees, Yasmin Abdul Rashid

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Efficacy and safety of trifluridine/tipiracil plus bevacizumab across different subgroups of patients with refractory colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis 针对不同亚组难治性结直肠癌患者的三氟啶/替比拉嘧啶加贝伐单抗的疗效和安全性：一项荟萃分析

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1728

Luís Felipe Leiteda Silva, Erick Figueiredo Saldanha, Lucas Dinizda Conceição, Wolney de Andrade Martins, R. Altenburg Gismondi, Erito Marques de Souza Filho, Renata D’Alpino Peixoto

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Assessing the effectiveness of tumour board education among medical students: a pre-post-test analysis 评估肿瘤委员会教育在医学生中的效果：前-后测试分析

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1727

Fatima Shaukat, Tayyab Siddiqui, Yumna Ahmed, Muneeba Khan, Mariam Fahim, Asna Noor, Agha Muhammad Hammad Khan, Ahmed Nadeem Abbasi

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Perceptions of prostate cancer patients undergoing definitive radiotherapy on the impact of prostate cancer and radiation therapy on male sexuality 接受最终放射治疗的前列腺癌患者对前列腺癌和放射治疗对男性性能力影响的看法

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1726

J. Daniels, Leroy Baffoe-Krapim, Andrew Yaw Nyantakyi, Edwina Ayaaba Ayabilah, Judith Naa Odey Tackie, Kofi Adesi Kyei

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Physicians’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on advance care planning for patients with advanced cancer in a National University Hospital in the Philippines 菲律宾一所国立大学医院的医生对晚期癌症患者预先护理计划的认识、态度和做法

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1725

S. Estreller, J. Pilapil, F. I. Ting, I. Real, E. Dee

{"title":"Physicians’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on advance care planning for patients with advanced cancer in a National University Hospital in the Philippines","authors":"S. Estreller, J. Pilapil, F. I. Ting, I. Real, E. Dee","doi":"10.3332/ecancer.2024.1725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2024.1725","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Advance care planning (ACP) is generally part of patients’ rights and decision-making processes. It is a component of the patient–physician care dynamics, especially in the context of life-threatening illness. Little is known about ACP and the utilisation of advance directives in the Philippines, a country of 110 million people. The study aimed to explore the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) of resident physicians in a national university hospital in the Philippines regarding ACP for patients with advanced cancer. Methods: Using a cross-sectional design involving resident physicians, an online survey with a self-administered questionnaire was distributed and answered by a total of 202 respondents. Results: Results show that resident physicians generally: (1) view palliative and hospice medicine to be the same and without differences, (2) are comfortable with discussing ACP and prognosis of medical conditions with patients and their families, but (3) do not regularly initiate or offer ACP to them, (4) identify a lack of time, fear of imparting emotional distress to patients and their families and personal discomfort as barriers to conducting ACP and (5) have had no formal training for ACP but are willing to undergo such formation, given the opportunity. Conclusion: This study highlights the continuing need to bridge and unite KAPs pertaining to ACP among physicians. Further studies should be undertaken to device a proper training program and better explore the complexities of end-of-life care as it is experienced by Filipino patients with advanced cancer.","PeriodicalId":502597,"journal":{"name":"ecancermedicalscience","volume":"80 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141681984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Parents providing palliative care for children with cancer 父母为癌症儿童提供姑息关怀

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1724

Rima Saad Rassam, H. Abu-Saad Huijer, Samar Noureddine, Ellen M Lavoie Smith, Joanne Wolfe, Souha Fares, Miguel R Abboud

{"title":"Parents providing palliative care for children with cancer","authors":"Rima Saad Rassam, H. Abu-Saad Huijer, Samar Noureddine, Ellen M Lavoie Smith, Joanne Wolfe, Souha Fares, Miguel R Abboud","doi":"10.3332/ecancer.2024.1724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2024.1724","url":null,"abstract":"Parents of children with cancer provide paediatric palliative care (PPC). However, the activities they perform remain underexplored, especially in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the care heavily relies on family involvement. The aim of this study is to identify parental PPC tasks and intentions to perform PPC tasks and to determine their associated factors. A quantitative cross-sectional descriptive design was used to recruit parents of children with cancer from three major paediatric oncology centres in Lebanon. Data were collected through structured interviews using an adapted questionnaire. The statistical analyses included descriptive, bivariate and regression analyses of PPC tasks and intentions. One hundred and five participants completed the study. On average, parents performed 22 PPC activities. The findings suggested statistically significant associations of the number of PPC tasks with the participants’ marital status, number of people living with the child, the intentions to perform the tasks and the number of the child’s symptoms in the previous week. Examining parents’ tasks in PPC in LMICs, such as Lebanon, enhances knowledge of PPC practice in these regions and informs improvement strategies. These results promote PPC understanding, highlight factors influencing PPC delivery and provide a useful measure of PPC tasks performed by parents of children with cancer.","PeriodicalId":502597,"journal":{"name":"ecancermedicalscience","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Optimising head and neck cancer patient management: the crucial contributions of multidisciplinary tumour board decision-making 优化头颈部癌症患者管理：多学科肿瘤委员会决策的重要贡献

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1710

B. Ayub, Fizza Asif Qureshi, Nabeel Humayun Hassan, Fatima Shaukat, T. Qureshi

{"title":"Optimising head and neck cancer patient management: the crucial contributions of multidisciplinary tumour board decision-making","authors":"B. Ayub, Fizza Asif Qureshi, Nabeel Humayun Hassan, Fatima Shaukat, T. Qureshi","doi":"10.3332/ecancer.2024.1710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2024.1710","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the head and neck is a great burden globally, which is being tackled through treatment options of surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of these, to avoid disease-related mortality. Multidisciplinary tumour boards play a pivotal role in customising and deciding management plan based on clinical aspects. The objective of the study is to determine the concordance of opinion between the treatment plan of a primary physician and board members. Material and methods: This is a retrospective cross-sectional study that includes 137 head and neck carcinoma cases. They were discussed in the multidisciplinary tumour board meeting and were reviewed; all demographics were analysed including the tumour staging and the decisions of the primary physician was compared with those of the board. To check the concordance between primary surgeon plans or after board discussion Kappa agreement test was used. Results: Total of 137 patients were included in the study out of which 63 cases were pre-treatment and 74 cases were post-treatment, i.e., surgically treated cases, with the distribution being 46% and 54%, respectively. Most cases, totaling 120, were SCC, accounting for 80% of the total cases. Among the pre-treatment cases, T4a and N0 were the most common categories, with 29 and 40 cases, respectively. Similarly, in post-treatment cases, the majority fell into the T4a and N1 categories, with 29 and 38 cases, respectively. When comparing the primary surgeon's plan with the tumour board meeting decision, the agreement showed a value of 0.273, indicating a slight level of agreement between the two entities. Conclusion: Our data indicates that the multidisciplinary head and neck tumour board may have influenced the treatment plans of the primary surgeon, in approximately one in two patients (43.06%).","PeriodicalId":502597,"journal":{"name":"ecancermedicalscience","volume":"1 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141267226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mucinous intestinal adenocarcinoma arising from mature cystic teratoma of the ovary treated with FOLFOX-6 - a case report 卵巢成熟囊性畸胎瘤引发的黏液性肠腺癌--FOLFOX-6治疗病例报告

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1709

Enrique Bedoya-Ismodes, Karem Portugal, Sandy Carmona-Lozano, Mirna Dominguez-Gonzales, Jaime Torres, Nestor Juarez-Herrera

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Smoking cessation counselling patterns in cancer patients – survey of Lebanese physicians 癌症患者的戒烟咨询模式--黎巴嫩医生调查

ecancermedicalscience Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1699

Jad A. Najdi, Mariana El Hawa, Adnan El-Achkar, Nour Naji, Talar Telvizian, Maya Romani, Albert El Hajj, Deborah Mukherji

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