chinese/neoplasms

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) includes both herbal remedies and non-herbal practices. Chinese cancer patients are particularly at high risk for herb-drug interactions. Providers, both primary care physicians and oncologists, frequently do not ask patients about TCM use, which has potentially

Patients with adrenal tumours were identified (n = 412). Among them, 43% (176 patients) had primary and 57% (236 patients) had secondary tumours. Of the primary tumours, 71% were adenomas, but adrenal cortical carcinoma 6.8% (12 cases), phaeochromocytoma 9.7% (17 cases), neuroblastoma 6.2% (11

OBJECTIVE This paper reports a study exploring how traditional Chinese life philosophy, including fatalism, influences understanding of the concepts of health and illness, and the impact of these concepts on cancer screening behaviour. BACKGROUND The language of risk is central to contemporary

OBJECTIVE This paper is a report of the development and psychometric testing of the Chinese Breast Cancer Screening Beliefs Questionnaire, a culturally sensitive questionnaire for measuring Chinese-Australian women's beliefs, knowledge and attitudes towards breast cancer and breast screening

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the influence of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on self-care among Chinese cancer patients. METHODS This was an exploratory qualitative study. A purposive sample of thirty cancer patients who were currently undergoing either chemotherapy or

Seventy-six patients less than 40 years of age were diagnosed from 1970 to 1983 as having lung cancer. We compared the smoking history, clinical features, cell types, and treatments in this series with those of 804 patients with primary lung cancer aged 40 or more. In the present study the

A case-control study involving interviews with 672 female lung cancer patients and 735 population-based controls was conducted to investigate the high rates of lung cancer, notably adenocarcinoma, among women in Shanghai. Cigarette smoking was a strong risk factor, but accounted for only about

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research is to study the validation of the Chinese version of Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20 in measuring fatigue status of the patients with cancer in China. METHODS The original English version of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20 was translated into a

OBJECTIVE To establish the validity and reliability of traditional Chinese version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Colorectal (FACT-C). METHODS A total of 536 subjects self-administered (n = 331) or interviewer-administered (n = 205) FACT-C (version 4), EORTC QLQ-C30/CR38 and SF-12v2

In the U.S. and Canada, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) use has become increasingly common; Chinese immigrants have particularly high rates of TCM use. In this study, we used a cross sectional survey study design to assess the specific types of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine (TCHM) used, the

BACKGROUND Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been widely applied for cancer care in China. There have been a large number of controlled clinical studies published in Chinese literature, yet no systematic searching and analysis has been done. This study summarizes the current evidence of

BACKGROUND Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is widely used for cancer treatment in China. Many support its use in treatment for cancer, yet scientific evidence for the effect of TCM needs to be established. METHODS In this review case reports on cancer patients treated by TCM therapies are

BACKGROUND The association of malnutrition in early life with breast cancer risk has been studied in Europe by investigating survivors of the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine, but not in China. We evaluated the effect of exposure to the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward famine on subsequent breast cancer risk