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Outbreak of pellagra among Mozambican refugees - Malawi, 1990.
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Micronutrient deficiency disorders, including pellagra, have emerged as major problems in refugee populations that depend on international relief assistance for food supplies (1,2). This report summarizes an investigation of pellagra that occurred among Mozambican refugees in Malawi during 1990.
Since 1987, approximately 900,000 Mozambicans have fled armed conflict in their homeland to seek refuge in neighboring Malawi. Approximately half are housed in refugee camps; the remainder live in villages integrated with the local Malawian population. Overall refugee relief ...
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Chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer: the continuing challenge. (editorial)
Magazine article from: Chest
; ...systemic disease, the use of chemotherapy has been under intensive investigation...pendulum toward the role of chemotherapy has swung widely over the years...increasing disappointment with chemotherapy that results in reproducible...
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Chemotherapy Endorsed for Early Breast Cancer; Broad Recommendation Does Not Depend on Patient's Age, the Type of Tumor or Whether It Has Spread
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...should be considered "candidates for chemotherapy." In a paper published last week...statistically significant, benefits if chemotherapy is added to hormone therapy in patients...breast cancer cases. The addition of chemotherapy improved their five-year disease...
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Chemotherapy improves gastric cancer survival.(Gastroenterology)
Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News
; ...patients who received perioperative chemotherapy showed a 13% absolute improvement...Council. Of the patients who received chemotherapy before and after surgery, 36% were...Society of Clinical Oncology. The chemotherapy regimen down-staged primary tumors...
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Chemotherapy for breast cancer is associated with disruption of sleep-wake rhythm in women.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health
; ...impaired during the administration of chemotherapy. Results indicate that the first cycle of chemotherapy is associated with a temporary disruption...while repeated administration of chemotherapy results in progressively worse and...
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Chemotherapy + BMT Fights Advanced Disease.
Newspaper article from: Blood Weekly
; ...Health Care treatment using high-dose chemotherapy followed by a bone marrow transplant...suggested that a four-drug, high-dose chemotherapy treatment along with a bone marrow...using the four-drug, high-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant strategy...
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Chemotherapy education for novice oncology nurses may create a culture of safety for nurses and patients.(AS SEEN IN THE CLINICAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY NURSING)
Magazine article from: ONS Connect
; ...nurses to safely handle and administer chemotherapy became a priority. Norma Sheridan...the hospital followed to redesign its chemotherapy education system and maximize nurse...preventable. Nurses and pharmacists consider chemotherapy agents the greatest threats to patient...
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Chemotherapy Alone for Glottic Carcinoma: A Need for Higher-Level Evidence
Magazine article from: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology
; Chemotherapy has been employed in the treatment...carcinoma by using a regimen of induction chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy for responders...developed using laxane-based induction chemotherapy,7 concomitant chemoradiation,8...
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Chemotherapy and survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a contrary view. (editorial)
Magazine article from: Chest
; ...cell lung cancer should be offered chemotherapy. Although I agree that all studies of cisplatin-based chemotherapy compared with best supportive care...for those patients treated with chemotherapy, I disagree that this fact alone...
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Chemotherapy may hinder memory
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Chemotherapy may hinder memory, concentration of...cancer survivors have long suspected: Chemotherapy can, in some cases, cause problems...that 20% to 30% of women who undergo chemotherapy for breast cancer, as well as other...
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Chemotherapy plus radiotherapy resulted in increased late complications.
Newspaper article from: Drug Week
; ...amp; NewsRx.net) -- Concomitant chemotherapy and radiotherapy possibly should be...considered when prescribing concomitant chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as a routine treatment...and 24 T3/T4) received concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Radiotherapy volumes...
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