ABSTRACT Introduction: The implementation of a Psycho-oncology Service depends on institutional, structural, and political factors affecting the availability and quality of this service. Recent events, such as the discontinuation of the Professional Improvement Course, a funding source that supports the training of health professionals, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, have...
ABSTRACT Objectives: This study aimed to characterize the clinical profile and the factors that predispose chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in the acute and delayed phases. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted in a Brazilian hospital with pediatric patients under 18 years old receiving moderately or highly emetogenic chemotherapy. Thus, a...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Malignant neoplasms are a major public health problem, being the second leading cause of death in the world. In 2012, the Ministry of Health (BR) instituted Law No. 12,732, which grants cancer patients the right to obtain, from the anatomopathological diagnosis, access to the first treatment in the Brazilian...
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to affect head and neck cancer treatment in Brazil. Concerned with the outcomes impact of these aggressive cancer, The Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology developed recommendations on head and neck cancer management during the outbreak.
