Supportive Care and Quality of Life

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Supportive Care and Quality of Life Gary Deng and Barrie R. Cassileth BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SUPPORTIVE CARE AND QUALITY OF LIFE “Quality of life” entered the medical lexicon for the…

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Pituitary Gland Cancer

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Pituitary Gland Cancer Theodore E. Yaeger FIGURE 36.1. Posterolateral view of the pituitary gland. P, posterior; r, right. 1, pituitary gland; 2, sphenoid sinus; 3, diaphragm sellae; 4, optic chiasm;…

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Leukemia

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Leukemia Kenneth B. Roberts, Stuart Seropian, and Peter W. Marks The leukemias are a group of neoplastic disorders of the hematopoietic system, characterized by aberrant or arrested differentiation. The role…

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Osteosarcoma and Other Primary Tumors of Bone

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Osteosarcoma and Other Primary Tumors of Bone Jaroslaw T. Hepel and Timothy J. Kinsella Primary malignant tumors of bone are rare neoplasms accounting for <0.2% of all cancers. In 2010,…

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Adrenal Cancer

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Adrenal Cancer Filip T. Troicki and John J. Coen ANATOMY The paired suprarenal (adrenal) glands are located between the superomedial aspects of the kidney and the diaphragmatic crura. They are…

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Pain Management

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Pain Management Gary Deng, Amitabh Gulati, and Barrie R. Cassileth Pain can significantly decrease patients’ quality of life during and after radiotherapy, but appropriate and adequate pain management remains imperfect….

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