4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
MesoTRAP: a feasibility study that includes a pilot clinical trial comparing video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy decortication with indwelling pleural catheter in patients with trapped lung due to malignant pleural mesothelioma designed to address recruitment and randomisation uncertainties and sample size requirements for a phase III trial
…Another is video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy/decortication (VAT-PD). Performed under general anaesthesia, VAT-PD permits surgical removal of the rind of tumour from the visceral pleura thereby allowing the lung to fully re-expand…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Tumor necrosis correlates with angiogenesis and is a predictor of poor prognosis in malignant mesothelioma
…analyzed together, necrosis was not an independent predictor of survival. Cell type, general physical condition (performance status) and blood vessel count were. Necrosis did add information to two existing prognostic scoring systems, EORTC and CALGB. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
What are the psychological effects of mesothelioma on patients and their carers? A scoping review
…et al.) reported that mesothelioma patients had the highest suicide risk of all cancer types in the first six months after diagnosis, 8.61-fold compared with the general population. No study explored carers' experience separately…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Malignant pleural mesothelioma patients' experience by gender: findings from a cross-sectional UK-national questionnaire
…clarity, health care professionals' knowledge, general practitioner support and overall satisfaction with care received. Recruitment of patients was carried out in three UK countries (England, Wales and Scotland) via mesothelioma clinical nurse specialists. In total, 503…