Supportive Care in Hemato-Oncology: A Review in Light of the Latest Guidelines

Recent developments in cancer therapy have resulted in increases in treatment success rates and survival. One of thebasic goals of such therapy is improving patient quality of life. Chemotherapy protocols for solid or hematologicalmalignancies-most of which include multiple agents-negatively impact...

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Autores principales: Gündüz, Eren, Gülbaş, Zafer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24744617
http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/tjh.2012.10327
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description Recent developments in cancer therapy have resulted in increases in treatment success rates and survival. One of thebasic goals of such therapy is improving patient quality of life. Chemotherapy protocols for solid or hematologicalmalignancies-most of which include multiple agents-negatively impact patient quality of life. Additionally, there havebeen developments in supportive care, which seeks to ameliorate or minimize the negative effects of chemotherapy.Herein we present a review and brief summarization of some of the agents used for supportive care in cancer patientsin light of the latest guidelines.
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spelling pubmed-39867602014-04-17 Supportive Care in Hemato-Oncology: A Review in Light of the Latest Guidelines Gündüz, Eren Gülbaş, Zafer Turk J Haematol Review Recent developments in cancer therapy have resulted in increases in treatment success rates and survival. One of thebasic goals of such therapy is improving patient quality of life. Chemotherapy protocols for solid or hematologicalmalignancies-most of which include multiple agents-negatively impact patient quality of life. Additionally, there havebeen developments in supportive care, which seeks to ameliorate or minimize the negative effects of chemotherapy.Herein we present a review and brief summarization of some of the agents used for supportive care in cancer patientsin light of the latest guidelines. Galenos Publishing 2012-03 2012-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3986760/ /pubmed/24744617 http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/tjh.2012.10327 Text en © Turkish Journal of Hematology, Published by Galenos Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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