Symptom Palliation in Advanced GallBladder Cancer: An Institutional Experience

AIM: Palliation of symptoms of patients with advanced carcinoma gallbladder (GB). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty-two newly diagnosed patients of unresectable advanced and metastatic GB cancers were enrolled, and following clinicoradiological assessment patients were considered for palliative symptom m...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Amit, Gupta, Sweety, Chauhan, Udit, Kumar, Utkarsh, Sharma, Nidhi, Ahuja, Rachit, Rajput, Deepak, Gupta, Manoj
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6812429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31673204
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_94_19
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author Gupta, Amit
Gupta, Sweety
Chauhan, Udit
Kumar, Utkarsh
Sharma, Nidhi
Ahuja, Rachit
Rajput, Deepak
Gupta, Manoj
author_facet Gupta, Amit
Gupta, Sweety
Chauhan, Udit
Kumar, Utkarsh
Sharma, Nidhi
Ahuja, Rachit
Rajput, Deepak
Gupta, Manoj
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description AIM: Palliation of symptoms of patients with advanced carcinoma gallbladder (GB). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty-two newly diagnosed patients of unresectable advanced and metastatic GB cancers were enrolled, and following clinicoradiological assessment patients were considered for palliative symptom management. RESULTS: The most common presenting symptom was pain in 57 (92%) patients. Obstructive jaundice was observed in 29 (46.7%) patients. Patients were considered for percutaneous biliary drainage/internal stenting, therapeutic ascitic tapping, and pain control. Patients with good performance status were considered for palliative chemotherapy. CONCLUSION: Patients with advanced carcinoma GB were managed with various palliative procedures with the aim to improve the quality of life of patients because of jaundice, loss of appetite, nausea, pain, etc. Symptoms are distressing for patients.
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spelling pubmed-68124292019-10-31 Symptom Palliation in Advanced GallBladder Cancer: An Institutional Experience Gupta, Amit Gupta, Sweety Chauhan, Udit Kumar, Utkarsh Sharma, Nidhi Ahuja, Rachit Rajput, Deepak Gupta, Manoj Indian J Palliat Care Original Article AIM: Palliation of symptoms of patients with advanced carcinoma gallbladder (GB). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty-two newly diagnosed patients of unresectable advanced and metastatic GB cancers were enrolled, and following clinicoradiological assessment patients were considered for palliative symptom management. RESULTS: The most common presenting symptom was pain in 57 (92%) patients. Obstructive jaundice was observed in 29 (46.7%) patients. Patients were considered for percutaneous biliary drainage/internal stenting, therapeutic ascitic tapping, and pain control. Patients with good performance status were considered for palliative chemotherapy. CONCLUSION: Patients with advanced carcinoma GB were managed with various palliative procedures with the aim to improve the quality of life of patients because of jaundice, loss of appetite, nausea, pain, etc. Symptoms are distressing for patients. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6812429/ /pubmed/31673204 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_94_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Gupta, Manoj
Symptom Palliation in Advanced GallBladder Cancer: An Institutional Experience
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6812429/
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