Hospice philosophy: an alternative to assisted suicide.
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Hospice Care↗
Biomedical subjects
W L Wheeler
Publications and source records attributed to W L Wheeler.
From hospital to hospice and back again: the management of chronic cancer pain.
The National Hospice Study of 1986 has not only revealed that hospices do a better job of meeting pain-control goals than do hospitals, but also elucidated a number of important differences in hospice and hospital care that account for this finding.
Analgesics↗
Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy with fluorouracil, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and BCG vaccine. A follow-up report.
Two hundred twenty-two patients with stage II or III breast cancer following regional therapy were treated with a combination of fluorouracil, doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adrimycin), cyclophosphamide, and BCG vaccine. At 54 months of study (median follow-up, 30 months), the estimated proportions remaining disease-free two and three years after surgery were 83%and 78%, respectively, in the chemotherapy group and 64% and 55%, respectively, in 151 historical control patients. Estimated two- and three-year survival rates were 93% and 89%, respectively, in the chemotherapy group and 84% and 58%, respectively, in the control patients. Congestive heart failure has developed in three patients, possibly related to the use of doxorubicin. Adjuvant chemotherapy with these drugs was effective in prolonging the disease-free interval and survival of patients irrespective of menopausal status, degree of nodal involvement, or stage of the disease.
Antineoplastic Agents↗
A pharmacokinetically based phase I-II study of single-dose actinomycin D (NSC-3053).
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Agranulocytosis↗
Clinical applications of methadone.
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Analgesics, Opioid↗