ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the functional capacity of women with breast neoplasm undergoing palliative chemotherapy. Method: Cross-sectional study with an analysis of medical records of women with breast cancer undergoing palliative chemotherapy. Results: Out of one hundred evaluated records, mos...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the contents and dimensions of social representations about chemotherapy by cancer patients in chemotherapy treatment. Method: qualitative study, based on the Theory of Social Representations. One hundred patients were interviewed with cancer undergoing chemotherapy trea...
Objetivo: avaliar os efeitos do relaxamento com imagem guiada sobre a qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde de pacientes durante quimioterapia. Metodologia: estudo quase-experimental realizado com 152 pacientes adultos com câncer em dois centros de quimioterapia. Utilizou-se instrumento Quality of Lif...
ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the average direct cost of maintaining the patency of totally implanted central venous catheter with heparin at a Day Hospital of a public hospital of high complexity specialized in the treatment of cancer patients, and estimate the average direct cost of replacing hepari...
O objetivo deste relato foi descrever a experiência acadêmica adquirida sobre o cotidiano do paciente oncológico em quimioterapia, construído junto a um projeto extensionista em um hospital universitário, compreendido entre março de 2015 e fevereiro de 2016, contendo um contingente em ...
The aim was to develop a nursing care protocol for the prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced mucositis at an outpatient clinic of a High Complexity Center in Oncology. A qualitative convergent-care research was undertaken. The construction of the protocol was driven by the criteria of Evidence...
