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"Malnutrition, symptom burden and predictive validity of the Patient-Ge" by Lauren Caruana, Liz Nichols et al.

Aim: To (i) describe the prevalence of malnutrition among a cohort of central Australian, predominantly Indigenous, haemodialysis patients and (ii) determine the sensitivity and specificity of the Patient Generated Subjective Global Assessment total score for identification of malnutrition in these patients. Methods: Cross-sectional observational study of all patients attending haemodialysis units within the Central Australia Health Service. Patients were assessed using the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment. Chi-Square tests were used to determine the association between nutritional status and location, age and gender. Receiver Operator Characteristic curves were used to ascertain the predictive validity for malnutrition of the total score. Results: Indigenous patients comprised 98% of study haemodialysis patients (n = 249/253). One third were male, and 72% were aged between 30 and 59 years. Approximately 29% (74/253) were malnourished, and 93% (69/74) had a total score � ....

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10 Questions About Advanced Colon Cancer Treatment


10 Questions About Advanced Colon Cancer Treatment
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You’ve gotten your initial diagnosis, which already was a shock. Now your doctor has more potentially bad news your cancer has spread and you are among the 22% of patients who has stage 4, or advanced, colon cancer. Now what? You’ll probably have a lot of questions about your treatment plan and what you can expect. Here are some reassuring answers.
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What does stage 4 cancer really mean?
“The way that I approach thinking about staging is if you see cancer outside of the colon, that s metastatic disease, and that’s stage four,” says Leah Biller, M.D., an oncologist at Dana-Farber’s Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment Center in Boston. Doctors arrive at the number by doing imaging tests (CT scans or, sometimes, MRIs or PET scans) as well as surgically removing the tumor. If the scans show that there’s cancer in other parts of your body your lungs, your liver or in the lymph nodes outside ....

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