Oncology

CLINICAL QUESTION: In patients undergoing brain surgery for glioma resection, what is the risk of iatrogenic brain damage due to the surgery? SYNOPSIS: This meta-analysis included 90 studies published between 1990 to 2010 comprised of a total of 8,091 adult patients undergoing surgery for resection of supratentorial infiltrative gliomas. The study aimed to find out if intraoperative brain stimulation mapping (ISM) prior to resection of the glioma lowered the risk of neurologic damage seen with…

Approach to Care of Cancer According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) “the number of new cancer cases will rise to 22 million within the next two decades” (U.S. Department of Health, 2015). Many children and adults are suffering with cancer. Families and friends need the resources and emotional support during this time. We can be a part of that change to make a difference in decreasing and preventing the chances of developing cancer by educating individuals on diet, physical activity,…

professional for two decades and currently works at Texas Oncology, has said that sugar spikes cause far more heart disease than the fats that we are so conscious of do. “Western Europeans – Germans, the Polish, the Dutch – all eat far more fats than we do, and yet have far fewer instances of heart disease. We have done studies and what the studies show is that it isn’t the fats that cause heart disease, or not completely. Blood sugar levels spiking causes far more heart disease than the fats we…

other specialists. Oncologists have typically completed an internal medicine residency after graduating medical school, followed by an oncology fellowship. They may also choose to earn board certification to show that they are professionally educated as oncologists. Medical oncologists coordinate a course of treatment for cancer patients with the rest of their oncology team. They prescribe various types of treatment, such as chemotherapy, medications and hormones to help cure and get rid of…

Pediatric Oncology: The Meaningful Need of a Pediatric Oncologist Every year, 15,780 children between the ages birth and eighteen years receive a diagnosis of cancer. Approximately 1 in 285 children will receive a diagnosis before the age of twenty. Pediatric oncologists remain vital to the adolescent population because they provide different methods of treatment for cancers, manage advanced technology to find cancers, and help sick children feel at home with decorations of many characters in…

is critical for social workers who work in oncology settings because they face unique problems due to constant exposure to death, dying, physical mutilation, and pain. Social workers in oncology settings are at a great risk for strong countertransference, somatic reactions, and feelings of helplessness and frustration (Sormanti, 1994). The Psychosocial Oncology department at RPCI has acknowledged that many of their experiences are unique to the oncology setting and may cause interns to find it…

I found that this novel was quite unique in that it laid out a detailed examination of the history of cancer and how treatments were created, along with a detailed description of the author’s personal experience during the early days of oncology. The author of Emperor of all Maladies: A Biology of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, was able to lay out all of the aspects of cancer and the battle of trying to treat, prevent, and cure it. Since the 1800s, doctors have been pushing and hoping for a…

Controversies As testicular malignancy is a disease of young population with good long term prognosis and multidisciplinary treatment is evolving to reduce morbidity, certain areas of controversies have evolved. • Postchemotherapy Residual Disease: postchemotherapy retroperitoneal masses are found to be teratoma or viable GCT in 45% of CT radiographic masses of 11-20 mm and 28% of the 0-10 mm [44]. Ehrlich found 15-year recurrence-free survival rates of 95% and 73% for good risk and…

First, the authors specifically included the purpose of their study within the article, which was to assess whether it was possible to treat oncology patients within a Phase I clinical trial while allowing palliative care interventions to be included in their care. Next, the exact framework of this quantitative, feasibility study was not disclosed by the researchers. However, within the article…

The present analysis reports on the pooled data of three large radiation oncology centers for radiosurgery and high-precision RT (FSRT or IMRT) for skull base meningiomas to evaluate long-term outcome as well as treatment-related side effects in a very large group of…