New Research Focuses on Mesothelioma Brain Metastasis
Distant metastasis is common with malignant pleural mesothelioma – more than 60% of patients experience it – but rarely is it found around the brain.
A new study by a team of radiation oncologists in Great Britain, however, suggests that physicians should increase their focus on potential cerebral metastasis in mesothelioma patients.
“Patients will continue to live longer as a consequence of newer, more advanced treatments,” the study authors wrote. “It is critical now to recognize mesothelioma’s metastatic potential, particularly cerebral metastasis, which was previously only an autopsy finding.”
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Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - November 3, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Tags: Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments Pleural Source Type: news
Cancer Deaths Fall; Women's Weight Loss; and Palliative Sedation Cancer Deaths Fall; Women's Weight Loss; and Palliative Sedation
The top 3 things you should know to start your day.3 Things to Know Today (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
Coping With the Side Effects of Kidney-Cancer Treatment
Not long ago, the treatment options available to people with metastatic kidney cancer were few and feeble. Surgical removal of the affected tissue was an effective and often durable fix for people with cancer that was confined to the kidneys. But for the roughly 30% to 40% of people with kidney cancer that spreads to other parts of the body, the prognosis was dispiritingly grim.
Fortunately, things are much different today. “Since the early 2000s, we’ve had a class of drugs called blood-vessel inhibitors, and these made an immediate impact,” says Dr. Primo Lara, a professor, clinician, and director of the...
Source: TIME: Health - October 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized Cancer healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
What Is Palliative Sedation, and How Is It Administered? What Is Palliative Sedation, and How Is It Administered?
Unlike medically assisted death, palliative sedation aims to reduce the perception of an otherwise intolerable symptom. Systematic education about palliative sedation has been lacking.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Critical Care News Source Type: news
Uganda: Activists Call for More Access to Palliative Care Services
[Observer] Civil society organizations under the Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) want government to increase its support towards palliative care services in the country. This call was made during the commemoration of the World Palliative Care and Hospice day which is marked annually every second Sunday of October, writes ERNEST JJINGO. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 19, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Mass campaigns and collaborating centres: success stories from the Region expand outreach
12 October 2022 – Against a backdrop of rising tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates – from 40 cases per 100 000 in 2019 to 59 per 100 000 in 2021 – Libya has taken action to ensure migrants can access life-saving TB services.
In January 2020, a new project began offering TB services through outreach activities. Migrants displaying TB symptoms are offered diagnostic services through mobile clinics and to date more than 40 000 presumptive TB patients among the migrant population have been screened for TB.
Morocco is developing new strategies to ensure that people with cancer get palliative care. Mo...
Source: WHO EMRO News - October 12, 2022 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Oct 7 2022 This Week in Cardiology Oct 7 2022 This Week in Cardiology
Post-PCI antiplatelet therapy, palliative care in patients with HF, Watchman information on hospital websites, and HCM in athletes are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week ' s podcast.theheart.org on Medscape (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - October 7, 2022 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology Commentary Source Type: news
Cancer as a Full-Contact Sport Cancer as a Full-Contact Sport
Patient outcomes are improved when palliative care delivered by an interdisciplinary team rather than by a solo practitioner.MDedge (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hematology-Oncology Commentary Source Type: news
Cancer: Three signs suggesting you have terminal cancer - seen in 'palliative care' units
Researchers studied a cohort of patients in a palliative care unit to identify the most common and severe symptoms. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - October 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Homelessness and Access to Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Twenty years ago, still fresh out of college and not exactly sure what was next, I found myself back in Atlanta (where I had grown up) and answering a need at an organization my parents had started some 25 years earlier. The Open Door Community worked to address the needs of the homeless poor in Atlanta by providing a range of services (soup kitchens, showers, clothes closet, and weekly medical clinic) while also advocating for supportive and just legislation to end homelessness. As I arrived back in Atlanta, they needed a volunteer and on-site coordinator for the weekly medical clinic, and I fit the bill. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Hannah Murphy Buc Source Type: news
Home-Based Palliative Care Improves Heart Failure Outcomes Home-Based Palliative Care Improves Heart Failure Outcomes
Patients with chronic heart failure who got palliative care at home were almost 50% more likely to die at home than in the hospital, compared with patients who received usual careMedscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - September 30, 2022 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
New children's palliative care service for the East launched
It will be run by Cambridge University Hospitals in partnership with several hospices in the region. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - September 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Home-Based Palliative Care for Heart Failure May Cut Risk for Dying in Hospital
MONDAY, Sept. 26, 2022 -- For patients with heart failure, a regionally organized, collaborative, home-based palliative care that involves cardiologists, primary care providers, and palliative care specialists and that uses shared decision-making to... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 26, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Palliative Care Nursing Challenges at a University Hospital Palliative Care Nursing Challenges at a University Hospital
Palliative care nurses report common challenges to providing high-quality care in a university environment. How can these needs be addressed?Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nursing Journal Article Source Type: news
Palliative and end of life care
Information and resources for health and social care professionals to improve the quality of services and reduce inequalities in care. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
