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Background: Cancer disease is one of the most common diseases in Sweden andradiotherapy is one of the regimens available for the treatment of cancer. Radiotherapycan be delivered as single treatment or be divided into several fractions that last forweeks. Radiotherapy can cause …
… A tumour is starting to develop. To make a diagnosis and determine if radiotherapy is an option for treatment, you have to have a proper anamnesis and make a medical examination of the animal. A sample is taken from the tissue to determine the type of the tumor. There are many …
Utvärdering av rökavvänjning vid onkologklinikens strålbehandling, Länssjukhuset Ryhov
… The informants in this study were smoking cancer patients which had been given radiotherapy at the oncology department at Ryhov hospital in Jönköping, Sweden.The results showed that three out of eleven informants were still not smoking after their treatment ended. All informants …
Patientens skattning av livskvalitet innan och efter strålbehandling
… patients are diagnosed with head neck cancer. Treatment that involves radiotherapy can cause severe side effects for example trismus that affects quality of life. Purpose: To study health-related quality of life in patients who have undergone radiation treatment for head and …
… artiklar påvisas att det behövs fler studier. Keywords: Nursing, Intervention, Radiotherapy, Head & neck cancer, Oral mucosit
En litteraturstudie
Idag ges strålbehandling som bot mot många olika cancerformer i hela världen. För en patient som ska genomgå, genomgår eller har genomgått en strålbehandling uppstår många tankar, känslor, smärtor och andra upplevelser som sjuksköterskan behöver känna till för att kunna bistå …
… i databaserna Cinahl, Medline, Scopus och Swemed+. Sökord som användes var radiotherapy, skin care, oncologic nursing, oncologic care, radiation injuries och radiodermatitis. Resultatet baserades på 15 vetenskapliga artiklar som bedömdes vara relevanta för syftet. Utifrån dessa …
