Clinical role of FDG PET in evaluation of cancer patients

L Kostakoglu, H Agress Jr, SJ Goldsmith - Radiographics, 2003 - pubs.rsna.org
… recurrence, particularly among patients who have undergone surgery and irradiation. FDG
PET is particularly useful in breast cancer in the evaluation of patients with equivocal results …

Evaluation of an instrument to assess the needs of patients with cancer

B Bonevski, R Sanson‐Fisher, A Girgis, L Burton… - Cancer, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
evaluation of a subjective, self-administered instrument designed to measure the needs of
patients with cancer. … of the multidimensional impact of cancer (including assessment of health …

Evaluation of oxidative stress in patients with cancer

D Hristozov, V Gadjeva, T Vlaykova… - Archives of physiology …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
… those patients had higher MDA levels than the patients with benign diseases (p = 0.009 and
p = 0.021, t-test). Our results showed also that plasma levels of MDA in cancer patients were …

Prevalence and pattern of symptoms in patients with cancer pain: a prospective evaluation of 1635 cancer patients referred to a pain clinic

S Grond, D Zech, C Diefenbach, A Bischoff - Journal of pain and symptom …, 1994 - Elsevier
… about rhe prevalence of pain in different cancer types, epidemiologic data on the prevalence
of … to evaluate the prevalence of 15 important symptoms and symptom groups in cancer of …

Evaluation of trends in the cost of initial cancer treatment

JL Warren, KR Yabroff, A Meekins… - … the National Cancer …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… For patients diagnosed in 2002, Medicare paid an average of $39 891 for initial … cancer
patient, $41 134 for each colorectal cancer patient, and $20 964 for each breast cancer patient, …

Evaluation of patients with advanced cancer using the Karnofsky performance status

JW Yates, B Chalmer, FP McKegney - Cancer, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
… some method of quantifying patients’ status relative to … patients with cancer, its reliability
and validity have generally been assumed without formal investigation. In this paper we evaluate

Assessment of cancer pain: a prospective evaluation in 2266 cancer patients referred to a pain service

S Grond, D Zech, C Diefenbach, L Radbruch… - Pain, 1996 - Elsevier
cancer pain, data on the prevalence of different pain syndromes are rare. In a prospective
study of 2266 cancer patients… Thirty percent of the patients presented with 1, 39% with 2 and 31…

Lymph node evaluation in colorectal cancer patients: a population-based study

NN Baxter, DJ Virnig, DA Rothenberger… - … the National Cancer …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
… lymph node retrieval in colorectal cancer patients has not been examined on a broad
scale. We present a population-based analysis of lymph node evaluation in the United States. …

Cancer-related fatigue: guidelines for evaluation and management

RK Portenoy, LM Itri - The oncologist, 1999 - academic.oup.com
… Fatigue is a highly prevalent condition among cancer patients. Although most cancer patients
report that fatigue is a major obstacle to maintaining normal daily activities and quality of …

A POMS short form for cancer patients: psychometric and structural evaluation

F Baker, M Denniston, J Zabora… - … of Cancer, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… In the current study, only results for the 428 cancer patients among the 437 consented
subjects are reported. Fifty-nine percent of the participating cancer patients were male, 90% were …