Related Articles [Two Cases of Unresectable Gastric Cancer Where Bleeding Was Controlled by Radiation]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2020 Dec;47(13):2364-2366 Authors: Hamasaki T, Takeda S, Iida M, Kanekiyo S, Nishiyama M, Nakashima C, Shindo Y, Tokumitsu Y, Tomochika S, Yoshida S, Suzuki N, Hazama S, Yoshino S, Ioka T, Nagano H Abstract Case 1: The patient was a 74-year-old man with a performance status(PS)of 0. He was referred to our department for pyloric gastric cancer with multiple liver, lung, and lymph node metastases. We started chemotherapy after making the diagnosis of an unresectable gastric cancer. During chemotherapy, the hemoglobin level…
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Related Articles Effectiveness of palliative care consultation service on caregiver burden over time between terminally ill cancer and non-cancer family caregivers. Support Care Cancer. 2020 Dec;28(12):6045-6055 Authors: Wu LF, Lin C, Hung YC, Chang LF, Ho CL, Pan HH Abstract PURPOSE: The responsibility of taking care of terminal patients is accepted as a role of family members in Taiwan. Only a few studies have focused on the effect of palliative care consultation service (PCCS) on caregiver burden between terminal cancer family caregivers (CFCs) and non-cancer family caregivers (NCFCs). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to address the effect of…
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Related Articles The Functional Palliative Prognostic Index: a scoring system for functional prognostication of patients with advanced cancer. Support Care Cancer. 2020 Dec;28(12):6067-6074 Authors: Hiratsuka Y, Yamaguchi T, Maeda I, Morita T, Mori M, Yokomichi N, Hiramoto S, Matsuda Y, Kohara H, Suzuki K, Tagami K, Yamaguchi T, Inoue A Abstract PURPOSE: For appropriate advance care planning, functional prognostication is necessary. However, there are no studies of functional prognostication in patients with cancer. The aim of this study was to develop a functional prognostic scoring system for patients with advanced cancer. METHODS: In this multicenter prospective observational study, 1896 patients…
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Related Articles End-of-Life Care of Hospitalized Children with Advanced Heart Disease. J Korean Med Sci. 2020 Apr 27;35(16):e107 Authors: Lee J, Kim GB, Song MK, Lee SY, Kim MS, Bae EJ Abstract BACKGROUND: Despite improvements in palliative care for critically ill children, the characteristics of end-of-life care for pediatric patients with advanced heart disease are not well-known. We investigated these characteristics among hospitalized children with advanced heart disease in a tertiary referral center in Korea. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the records of 136 patients with advanced heart disease who died in our pediatric department from January 2006 through December 2013.…
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