Palliative care is the management of patients with progressive, far-advanced disease for whom
the prognosis is limited and the focus of care is quality of life. During the last days of life, it …

There is no consensus regarding the equivalence of performance status between the
Karnofsky (KPS) and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scales. In the present …

We have used strontium-89 chloride ( 89 Sr) for the palliative treatment of metastatic bone
pain. Seventy-six patients (50 males with prostate carcinoma and 26 females with breast …

Anal squamous cell carcinoma (ASCC) is a rare neoplasm. Chemoradiotherapy is the
standard of care, with no therapeutic advances achieved over the past three decades. Thus, a …

Introducción El objetivo de este estudio es analizar características de caídas en los ancianos
institucionalizados durante 2 períodos de estudio. Material y métodos Registro prospectivo …

Background There is no international consensus on optimal follow-up schedules and which
supplementary tests should be used after resection of a primary melanoma. Objective We …

CA 19.9 serum levels were prospectively determined in 573 patients admitted to hospital for
suspicion of pancreatic cancer. The final diagnosis was 77 patients with no malignancy, 389 …

The prognosis for oligometastatic colorectal cancer has improved in recent years, mostly
because of recent advances in new techniques and approaches to the treatment of …

Acral melanoma (AM) is associated with a poor prognosis in part because of delayed
diagnosis, but probably also because of other intrinsic characteristics of location. The aim of this …

AIM: To evaluate the long-term results of conventional chemoradiotherapy and laparoscopic
mesorectal excision in rectal adenocarcinoma patients without adjuvant therapy. METHODS…