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  • Chronic Viral Hepatitis in Cancer Patients Requires Personalized Management: Chronic viral hepatitis is life-threatening for many patients but curable or manageable for others. But in patients who have both viral hepatitis and cancer, cancer treatment may exacerbate the viral infection and lead to other complications, such as liver failure or even death
  • Managing Sleep Disorders in Cancer Patients: Quality sleep is essential to healing, to proper immune function, and even to mental health. Conversely, lack of sleep has been associated with depression, anxiety, and decreased cognitive function. In cancer patients, poor sleep reduces quality of life; nevertheless, most cancer patients do not mention sleep problems unless explicitly asked.
  • INBRIEF: Ex Vivo Umbilical Cord Blood Expansion Hastens Stem cell Engraftment in Transplant Recipients/Ibrutinib Shows Promise for Mantle Cell Lymphoma Treatment
  • HOUSE CALL: Finding Information About Alternative Medicine: How to choose credible sources and avoid pitfalls

Publication Date

2-1-2013

Publisher

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

City

Houston, Texas

Keywords

Torres, Harrys A.; Davila, Marta; Hwang, Jessica; Balachandran, Dave; Escalante, Carmen P.; Manzullo, Ellen F.; Faiz, Saadia; Shpall, Elizabeth; Wang, Michael; Hepatitis, Viral, Human; Hepatitis B virus; Hepacivirus; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; Liver Transplantation; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Continuous Positive Airway Pressure; Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation; Mesenchymal Stem Cells; Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell; Piperidines; Complementary Therapies.

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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology

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OncoLog, Volume 58, Number 02, February 2013

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