Search for dissertations about: "palliative treatment"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 82 swedish dissertations containing the words palliative treatment.

  2. 6. Dyspnea Experience and Quality of Life among persons with lung cancer in palliative care

    Author : Ingela Henoch; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Cancer Dyspnea Scale; CDS; Consequences; Content analysis; Coping; Depression; Dyspnea; Existential; Experience; Lung cancer; Management strategies; Palliative care; Quality of life; Reliability; Social support; Symptoms; Symptom experience; Validity;

    Abstract : Background: Dyspnea, a subjective, multidimensional experience of breathing discomfort commonly occurring in patients with incurable lung cancer, influences all aspects of life in the suffering per¬sons. To optimally enhance quality of life (QoL) and to identify persons most vulnerable to this symptom, it is important to investigate how to assess dyspnea, how other symptoms and coping are related to dyspnea, and what the consequences of dyspnea are, especially on QoL. READ MORE

  4. 7. Crossing the border : Different ways cancer patients, family members and physicians experience information in the transition to the late palliative phase

    Author : Maria Friedrichsen; Peter Strang; Gunnar Birgegård; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : communication; information; patient-physician relationship; family; prognosis; palliative care; cancer; MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : Information in the transition to the late palliative phase is not a well-studied area, especially not from the perspective of patients and family members. The aim of this thesis was to describe how cancer patients, family members and physicians experience information during the transition from a curative or early palliative phase to a late palliative phase, i. READ MORE

  5. 8. Aspects of decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment in intensive care

    Author : Alma Nordenskjöld Syrous; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; critical care; end-of-life decision-making; intensive care; life-sustaining treatment; withdraw; withhold;

    Abstract : End-of-life decision-making is required when the patient no longer benefits from available treatment options and there is a need to redirect medical treatment goals from cure to palliative care. End-of-life decisions are multifaceted and complicated processes for intensive care physicians. READ MORE

  6. 9. Gastrointestinal stromal tumours. On diagnosis and treatment

    Author : Per Bümming; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : adjuvant; epidemiology; GIST; imatinib; KIT; mutation; neoadjuvant; neuroendocrine phenotype; PET; prognosis; surgery; vesicle proteins;

    Abstract : Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are thought to originate from the interstitial cells of Cajal, which show many properties in common with neurons of the gastrointestinal tract. High-risk GIST has a very poor prognosis and tumour recurrence is common after intentionally curative surgery. READ MORE

  7. 10. Breast cancer : brain metastases and treatment aspects

    Author : Gabriella Frisk; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: In Sweden breast cancer is the most common malignant cancer disease among women, with 8000 new individual cases each year. The prognosis is generally very good, but nevertheless many patients still die of breast cancer every year. READ MORE