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Editorial: Resilience, Quality Of Life And Psychosocial Outcomes Of Cancer Patients And Their Caregivers, Nida Zahid, Nargis Asad, Ashraf El-Metwally
Editorial: Resilience, Quality Of Life And Psychosocial Outcomes Of Cancer Patients And Their Caregivers, Nida Zahid, Nargis Asad, Ashraf El-Metwally
Department of Surgery
No abstract provided.
Financial Toxicity Tumor Board: A Multi-Disciplinary Team Activity Required In Low And Middle-Income Countries (Lmic), Ahmed Nadeem Abbasi, Sohail Rasool, Laraib Khan
Financial Toxicity Tumor Board: A Multi-Disciplinary Team Activity Required In Low And Middle-Income Countries (Lmic), Ahmed Nadeem Abbasi, Sohail Rasool, Laraib Khan
Department of Radiation Oncology
No abstract provided.
Disclosing Bad News Of Cancer Diagnosis: Patients' Preference For Communication, Sabah Uddin Saqib, K. M. Inam Pal
Disclosing Bad News Of Cancer Diagnosis: Patients' Preference For Communication, Sabah Uddin Saqib, K. M. Inam Pal
Section of General Surgery
The majority of relatives of cancer patients in Pakistan request their clinicians to adopt a "do not tell approach" while counselling the patients regarding their disease. The current study aimed to assess patients' understanding of their disease and how they would prefer the physicians to deliver news about cancer diagnosis and its management plan. This was a cross-sectional study in which both patients and their immediate relatives were interviewed. The study enrolled 55 patients with six different types of cancers. The study showed that 35 (65.5%) patients did not know the stage of their illness at the time of diagnosis, …
Novel Anticancer Agents In Clinical And Preclinical Trials, Adnan Salim
Novel Anticancer Agents In Clinical And Preclinical Trials, Adnan Salim
Section of Neurosurgery
No abstract provided.
Cancer Of The Penis: Case Report, D. K. Kiptoon, P. M. Ngugi, F. S. Rana
Cancer Of The Penis: Case Report, D. K. Kiptoon, P. M. Ngugi, F. S. Rana
Pathology, East Africa
Two patients with penile carcinoma are presented after management at a district hospital in Kenya. Both had undergone ritual circumcision as teenagers and presented late. HR was a 73 year old who presented with a fungating penile mass for which a partial penectomy was performed after wedge biopsy confirmed malignancy. He thereafter declined to have the surgical specimen sent for histology and took the amputated stump for burial in his compound to avoid bad omen. GK was 25 years old and presented with a fungating mass and underwent partial penectomy after a histological diagnosis was made. He absconded from follow-up …
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Disease Spectrum And Management In A Tertiary Care Hospital, M R. Khan, S B. Hasan, S A. Sami
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Disease Spectrum And Management In A Tertiary Care Hospital, M R. Khan, S B. Hasan, S A. Sami
Department of Surgery
Objectives: To review the spectrum of presentation and the surgical management of Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) and the role of various diagnostic modalities in predicting the post-operative stage and the correlation of the post-operative stage with the chances of recurrence.SETTINGS: The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi--a tertiary care referral center in Paksitan.Methods: This is a retrospective study of medical records of all the patients who were managed at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) between 1988 and 1998. The patients with a diagnosis of lung cancer were identified using the ICD-9-CM coding system and the data was analyzed …