Titlebook: Supportive Care in Cancer Patients; Hans-J?rg Senn,Agnes Glaus (Oberschwester),Luzius Conference proceedings 1988 Springer-Verlag Berlin

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Electrostimulation and Neurosurgical Measures in Cancer PainApproximately 2000 percutaneous cordotomies, 135 thalamotomies, 20 mesencephalotomies, 40 cingulotomies, and 24 implantations of stimulating electrodes were performed annually. It is difficult to speculate on to day’s figures, but thalamotomies, mesencephalotomies, and cingulotomies are probably alm

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Treatment of Pain in the Cancer Patient: The Role of the Nursemited. However, it can be asserted (a) that pharmacological management alone does not constitute the sum total of pain control and (b) that effective pharmacological management is not only a matter of good prescribing. The intention of this chapter is to illustrate the necessity of a broad concept o

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Hematological Support in Patients Undergoing Allogenetic Bone Marrow Transplantationation (TBI) as the usual preparative regimen for BMT induces severe bone marrow aplasia lasting at least 2–4 weeks until marrow function takes place, as well as profound humoral and cellular immunosuppression. Under these circumstances transfusion of blood cells can be associated with several hazard

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Empirical Antimicrobial Therapy for Febrile Granulocytopenic Cancer Patients: Lessons from Four EORTmotherapy and/or neoplastic disease and a leading cause of death. A major step forward was the recognition that granulocytopenia was the most important factor predisposing cancer patients to frequent and severe sepsis. Improvements in the results of antimicrobial therapy under these conditions are p

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Managing Fungal and Viral Infection in the Immunocompromised Hostthe latter group include neoplasms of the hemopoietic system in combination with granulocytopenia, immunosuppressive measures, cytostatic drugs, or increasing use of broad spectrum antibiotics (most frequently a combination of these factors is involved). The rising number of opportunistic fungal inf

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Aspects of Infections in Children with Cancerry treatment of tumors but also supportive care of patients. In this setting, however, infections remain a major problem because of their significant morbidity and mortality, as well as the impediment they frequently pose to the accomplishment of the antineoplastic therapy.

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Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Fungal Infection in Acute Leukemia Patientscy of major fungal infections documented at autopsy in leukemia patients has risen to 38% [5, 14]. The causes are intensified cytostatic treatment, severe and long-term granulocytopenia, mucosal lesions, the type of antibiotic prescribed, and the duration of the antibiotic therapy and of hospitaliza

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Controlling Emesis in Patients Receiving Cancer Chemotherapyng. With greater use of chemotherapy and with the development of newer agents in which emesis is a major side-effect, the need for improved control of nausea and vomiting has become an important consideration in medical oncology and in supportive care. The primary objective of this paper is to provi

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Corticosteroids as Antiemeticsher instances of medical treatment, combinations of drugs will probably prove the best means of controlling the situation. We need agents that can be safely combined and that provide at least an additive protective effect. This paper demonstrates that corticosteroids are a significant addition to an

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Hypnotherapy as Antiemetic Treatment in Cancer Chemotherapyin cancer patients complaining of nausea and vomiting. Finally a short description will be given of a research program in the Netherlands Cancer Institute where we are comparing the effects of hypnosis and progressive muscle relaxation in reducing nausea and vomiting caused by cytostatic drugs.