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Consensus-Based Nutritional Recommendations For Patients With Head-And-Neck Cancer, Elizabeth Isenring
Consensus-Based Nutritional Recommendations For Patients With Head-And-Neck Cancer, Elizabeth Isenring
Liz Isenring
Extract: Patients with head-and-neck cancer constitute one of the diagnostic groups that most commonly experience deterioration of nutrition status. Malnutrition in patients with head-and-neck cancer is well known to potentially result in impaired wound healing, reduced immunocompetence, and decreased tolerance to treatment—and thus undesired treatment breaks and unplanned hospital admissions.
A Community Jury On Psa Screening: What Do Well-Informed Men Want The Government To Do About Prostate Cancer Screening - A Qualitative Analysis, Lucie Rychetnik, Jenny Doust, Rae Thomas, Robert A. Gardiner, Geraldine Mackenzie, Paul Glasziou
A Community Jury On Psa Screening: What Do Well-Informed Men Want The Government To Do About Prostate Cancer Screening - A Qualitative Analysis, Lucie Rychetnik, Jenny Doust, Rae Thomas, Robert A. Gardiner, Geraldine Mackenzie, Paul Glasziou
Paul Glasziou
Objective: Cancer screening policies and programmes should take account of public values and concerns. This study sought to determine the priorities, values and concerns of men who were 'fully informed' about the benefits and harms of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening; and empirically examine the value of a community jury in eliciting public values on PSA screening. Setting: Community jury was convened on the Gold Coast, Queensland (Australia) to consider PSA screening benefits and harms, and whether government campaigns on PSA screening should be conducted. Participants: 27 men (volunteers) aged 50-70 with no personal history of prostate cancer and willing to …
A Community Jury On Psa Screening: What Do Well-Informed Men Want The Government To Do About Prostate Cancer Screening - A Qualitative Analysis, Lucie Rychetnik, Jenny Doust, Rae Thomas, Robert A. Gardiner, Geraldine Mackenzie, Paul Glasziou
A Community Jury On Psa Screening: What Do Well-Informed Men Want The Government To Do About Prostate Cancer Screening - A Qualitative Analysis, Lucie Rychetnik, Jenny Doust, Rae Thomas, Robert A. Gardiner, Geraldine Mackenzie, Paul Glasziou
Jenny Doust
Objective: Cancer screening policies and programmes should take account of public values and concerns. This study sought to determine the priorities, values and concerns of men who were 'fully informed' about the benefits and harms of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening; and empirically examine the value of a community jury in eliciting public values on PSA screening. Setting: Community jury was convened on the Gold Coast, Queensland (Australia) to consider PSA screening benefits and harms, and whether government campaigns on PSA screening should be conducted. Participants: 27 men (volunteers) aged 50-70 with no personal history of prostate cancer and willing to …
A Community Jury On Psa Screening: What Do Well-Informed Men Want The Government To Do About Prostate Cancer Screening - A Qualitative Analysis, Lucie Rychetnik, Jenny Doust, Rae Thomas, Robert A. Gardiner, Geraldine Mackenzie, Paul Glasziou
A Community Jury On Psa Screening: What Do Well-Informed Men Want The Government To Do About Prostate Cancer Screening - A Qualitative Analysis, Lucie Rychetnik, Jenny Doust, Rae Thomas, Robert A. Gardiner, Geraldine Mackenzie, Paul Glasziou
Rae Thomas
Objective: Cancer screening policies and programmes should take account of public values and concerns. This study sought to determine the priorities, values and concerns of men who were 'fully informed' about the benefits and harms of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening; and empirically examine the value of a community jury in eliciting public values on PSA screening. Setting: Community jury was convened on the Gold Coast, Queensland (Australia) to consider PSA screening benefits and harms, and whether government campaigns on PSA screening should be conducted. Participants: 27 men (volunteers) aged 50-70 with no personal history of prostate cancer and willing to …