ABSTRACT Objective: Evaluating the association between acute kidney injury and death in critically ill children with oncological diseases admitted in an intensive care unit (ICU). Material and Methods: Unicentric cohort study, evolving children with cancer admitted in the ICU of a pediatrics referral hospital. The patients were divided according to the presence...
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: Ovarian cancer (OC) is one of the leading causes of women's cancer deaths worldwide. Recent clinical trials with PARP inhibitors showed promising therapeutic opportunities for OC patients. The assessment of BRCA mutation is well established as relevant in the prevention, early diagnostic, and family counseling for OC, and recently...
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 Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) are a report that comes from patients on a specific subject, describing how they feel about a condition or therapy. The term includes a range of constructions and methodology and can cover concepts such as symptoms to physical assessment, well-being and social involvement. The process...
ABSTRACT Cancer is the main public health problem in Brazil and the world, and if the National Oncological Care Policy is not modified, cancer will become the leading cause of death in the country in 2029. However, the guidelines of the Ministry of Education do not have oncology as a...
ABSTRACT Objectives: Advance directives (AD) are one of the main pillars of patients' autonomy and can impact directly the quality of life, dignity and rights of the dying patient. Despitethis, advance directives face many barriers to be created, implemented and followed. The moment of discontinuation of active anticancer therapy is an...
