scholarly journals Comparing the Effects of Acupressure on Cancer Treatment Side Effects in Children and Youth—The ACT-CC Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Anne Lown ◽  
Anu Banerjee ◽  
Christopher Dvorak ◽  
Wendy Hartogensis ◽  
Frederick M. Hecht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Treatment Side Effects

scholarly journals When Eating Becomes Torturous: Understanding Nutrition-Related Cancer Treatment Side Effects among Individuals with Cancer and Their Caregivers

Nutrients ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 356
Author(s):  
Brandy-Joe Milliron ◽  
Lora Packel ◽  
Dan Dychtwald ◽  
Cynthia Klobodu ◽  
Laura Pontiggia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Treatment Side Effects ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Loss Of Appetite ◽  
Living With Cancer ◽  
Depth Interviews

Individuals living with cancer often experience multiple nutrition-related side effects from cancer treatment, including changes in taste and smell, nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and pain during eating. These side effects can profoundly impact nutritional status and quality of life. The purpose of this study was to explore experiences with nutrition-related cancer treatment side effects among cancer patients and their family caregivers, the way they manage such side effects, and the resulting changes in food preferences and behaviors. Structured surveys and in-depth interviews were conducted. Interviews focused on the presence and management of treatment side effects, how those changes influenced food preferences, and the extent to which they interfered with quality of life. Most patients (72%) reported treatment side effects; 61% reported that these side effects impacted their eating and drinking. Common side effects included fatigue (58%), dry mouth (30%), nausea (24%), constipation (20%) and diarrhea (20%). Six overarching qualitative themes were identified: Spiral of side effects; Pain of eating; Burden of eating; Loss of taste/change in taste; Symptom management; and Solutions. The authors conclude with implications for food and nutrition practice—moving beyond traditional recommendations of what to eat or avoid—to consider the overall patient and caregiver experience.

CANCER TREATMENT AND CARDIOVASCULAR TOXITY: PATHOGENESIS AND ACTUAL APPROACHES TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF HEART FAILURE IN CANCER PATIENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-180
Author(s):  
Andrey Obrezan ◽  
Nataliya Shcherbakova
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Baseline Risk ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Treatment Side Effects ◽  
Cardiovascular Side Effects ◽  
Life Saving

The field of cardio-oncology has received increasing attention in recent years. This is due to the fact that the results of a large number of clinical studies on antitumor therapy, covering issues treatments side effects, including associated cardiovascular pathology, are published. Advances in treatment have led to improved survival of patients with cancer, but have also increased clinical significance of treatment side effects. Myocardium, having high metabolic activity, responds to substrate and energy imbalance under the action of increasing malignancy and toxic effects of radio- or chemotherapy. Finding of baseline risk factors, timely identification of cardiovascular diseases, ability to predict the long-term consequences of cancer treatment-associated cardiovascular side effects lead to improving of the prognosis and quality of life, avoiding of over-diagnosis cardiovascular diseases and inappropriating violation of life-saving treatment of a malignant tumor.

scholarly journals Behavioral Intervention for Cancer Treatment Side Effects

2001 ◽  
Vol 93 (11) ◽  
pp. 810-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Redd ◽  
G. H. Montgomery ◽  
K. N. DuHamel
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Behavioral Intervention ◽  
Treatment Side Effects

Impact of information sources on expectation of cancer treatment side effects: A URCC CCOP study

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (14_suppl) ◽  
pp. 8094-8094
Author(s):  
M. Hofman ◽  
J. A. Roscoe ◽  
J. T. Hickok ◽  
G. R. Morrow ◽  
D. F. Moore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Treatment Side Effects

scholarly journals Prediction of Bladder Cancer Treatment Side Effects Using an Ontology-Based Reasoning for Enhanced Patient Health Safety

Informatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Chamseddine Barki ◽  
Hanene Boussi Rahmouni ◽  
Salam Labidi
Keyword(s):  
Bladder Cancer ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Treatment Side Effects ◽  
Knowledge Based

Predicting potential cancer treatment side effects at time of prescription could decrease potential health risks and achieve better patient satisfaction. This paper presents a new approach, founded on evidence-based medical knowledge, using as much information and proof as possible to help a computer program to predict bladder cancer treatment side effects and support the oncologist’s decision. This will help in deciding treatment options for patients with bladder malignancies. Bladder cancer knowledge is complex and requires simplification before any attempt to represent it in a formal or computerized manner. In this work we rely on the capabilities of OWL ontologies to seamlessly capture and conceptualize the required knowledge about this type of cancer and the underlying patient treatment process. Our ontology allows case-based reasoning to effectively predict treatment side effects for a given set of contextual information related to a specific medical case. The ontology is enriched with proofs and evidence collected from online biomedical research databases using “web crawlers”. We have exclusively designed the crawler algorithm to search for the required knowledge based on a set of specified keywords. Results from the study presented 80.3% of real reported bladder cancer treatment side-effects prediction and were close to really occurring adverse events recorded within the collected test samples when applying the approach. Evidence-based medicine combined with semantic knowledge-based models is prominent in generating predictions related to possible health concerns. The integration of a diversity of knowledge and evidence into one single integrated knowledge-base could dramatically enhance the process of predicting treatment risks and side effects applied to bladder cancer oncotherapy.

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