Results suggest a lifestyle program focusing on cognitive-behavioral skills training alone is insufficient for promoting routine physical activity in these patients.
These preliminary results suggest that transthoracic sonography is as effective as chest radiography in the detection of pneumothorax after transthoracic sonographically guided lung biopsy and may become the method of choice for excluding, diagnosing, and monitoring pneumothorax after transthoracic sonographically guided biopsy. Chest radiography may be needed only for assessment of the extent of pulmonary collapse after transthoracic sonographic diagnosis of pneumothorax or in the presence of discrepancy between transthoracic sonographic findings and clinical presentation.
Background. Smoking withdrawal and relapse were characterized among newly diagnosed head and neck cancer patients participating in a physician-delivered smoking cessation intervention.Methods. Patients completed questionnaires at baseline, 1, 6, and 12 months following intervention delivery.Results: Significant baseline predictors of smoking relapse included medical treatment (XRT versus surgical treatment), stage of change/readiness to quit (precontemplators), age of initiation (younger), and greater addiction (smoking ഛ30 minutes after waking). Relapsers were significantly more likely to quit using gradual reduction versus cold turkey and had less confidence in remaining quit. Relapsers experienced significantly higher levels of anxiety and craving during withdrawal. Relapse was temporally delayed compared with healthy populations.Conclusion. Assistance with cessation efforts should be ongoing for one year and should include nicotine replacement therapy and psychotropic medications to address significant re- Tobacco is a primary risk factor for head and neck cancers; an estimated 41 400 new cases of cancer of the oral cavity, pharynx and larynx will be diagnosed in 1998 and 12 300 individuals will die from their disease.1,2 Clinicians who treat these tumors are well acquainted with their patients' long and highly addicted history of tobacco use. Our prior research on smoking cessation interventions for this population demonstrated that high quit rates could be obtained, and were sustained over a one-year period. 3,4 In that study, current smokers and recent quitters (individuals who stopped smoking within the year prior to diagnosis), newly diagnosed with first primary squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) of the head and neck, participated in a randomized, controlled
The difference in major complication rate between the subcapsular and nonsubcapsular liver tumors was not significant. The safety of RF ablation of subcapsular tumors seems acceptable, and the effectiveness is comparable to that of RF ablation of nonsubcapsular tumors.
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