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The FACT-G is the original questionnaire that led to the development of the larger Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) collection of quality of life instruments. The survey assesses the impacts of cancer therapy in four domains: physical, social/family, emotional, and functional. The FACT-G is also offered with additional ...
Cancer-related fatigue is a symptom of fatigue that is experienced by nearly all cancer patients. [ 1] Among patients receiving cancer treatment other than surgery, it is essentially universal. Fatigue is a normal and expected side effect of most forms of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and biotherapy. [ 2] On average, cancer-related fatigue ...
Endocrinology. Symptoms. Lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, seizures and coma [ 1] The syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion ( SIADH ), also known as the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis ( SIAD ), [ 2] is characterized by a physiologically inappropriate release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) either from ...
Internal Family Systems Model. The Internal Family Systems Model ( IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. [ 1][ 2] It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities, each with its own unique viewpoint and qualities.
Response evaluation criteria in solid tumors ( RECIST) is a set of published rules that define when tumors in cancer patients improve ("respond"), stay the same ("stabilize"), or worsen ("progress") during treatment. The criteria were published in February 2000 by an international collaboration including the European Organisation for Research ...
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare (informally the Schwartz Center; formerly the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center or KBS) is a non-profit organization established in 1995 to increase compassion and more meaningful collaboration between patients and medical professionals . The Schwartz center has over 550 organizational members in the U ...
978-1405159616. Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management is a clinical reference by Robert A. Schwartz covering skin and accessible mucosal disorders, premalignant and malignant cutaneous disorders, including melanoma, Kaposi's sarcoma and other sarcomas, cutaneous lymphoma, cutaneous metastatic disease and cutaneous markers of internal malignancy.
The original New York Cancer Hospital [ 2] built between 1884 and 1886, now housing, at 455 Central Park West and 106th Street in Manhattan. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ( MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in Manhattan in New York City. MSKCC is one of 72 National Cancer Institute -designated Comprehensive ...