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- Multi-agent chemotherapy for early breast cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Aug-2008
There have been many randomised trials of adjuvant prolonged polychemotherapy among women with early breast cancer, and an updated overview of their results is presented.
- Music interventions for improving psychological and physical outcomes in people with cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Oct-2021
This is an update of the review published on the Cochrane Library in 2016, Issue 8. Having cancer may result in extensive emotional, physical and social suffering. Music interventions have been used to alleviate symptoms and treatment side effects in peop
- Mycobacterium vaccae immunotherapy for treating tuberculosis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Nov-2009
Some authorities have advocated Mycobacterium vaccae immunotherapy for treating tuberculosis and other infections caused by mycobacteria.
- Narrow band imaging versus conventional white light colonoscopy for the detection of colorectal polyps
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Dec-2011
It has been suggested that narrow band imaging colonoscopy (NBI) might be better for detection of colorectal polyps than white light colonoscopy (WLC).
- Neo-adjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy for localised and locally advanced prostate cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 3-Jun-2009
Hormone therapy for early prostate cancer has demonstrated an improvement in clinical and pathological variables, but not always an improvement in overall survival. We performed a systematic review of both adjuvant and neo-adjuvant hormone therapy combine
- Neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy for surgical resection of hepatocellular carcinoma
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Nov-2008
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a disease of great concern. Surgery is the treatment of choice, but there is still a high recurrence rate after resection.
- Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for invasive bladder cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Jan-2012
Controversy exists as to whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves survival in patients with invasive bladder cancer, despite randomised controlled trials (RCTs) involving over 3000 patients.
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced cervix cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Feb-2015
The impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced cervical cancer remains uncertain.
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy versus none for resectable gastric cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 29-Oct-2008
Gastric cancer is a major cause of cancer death, and many patients are only diagnosed when the cancer has reached an advanced stage. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), that is, chemotherapy administered shortly before surgical treatment, could provide a meth
- Non surgical interventions for late radiation proctitis in patients who have received radical radiotherapy to the pelvis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Mar-2009
Chronic radiation proctitis (rectal inflammation) may develop after the completion of pelvic radiotherapy. Presently there is no recommended standard management.
- Non-invasive interventions for improving well-being and quality of life in patients with lung cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Sep-2011
This is an updated version of the original review published in Issue 4, 2004 of The Cochrane Library. Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally. Despite advances in treatment, the outlook for the majority of patients remains grim and most
- Non-pharmacological interventions for breathlessness in advanced stages of malignant and non-malignant diseases
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Apr-2014
Breathlessness is a common and distressing symptom in advanced stages of malignant and non-malignant diseases. Appropriate management requires both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions.
- Non-resection versus resection for an asymptomatic primary tumour in patients with unresectable Stage IV colorectal cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Jun-2012
In a majority of patients with stage IV colorectal cancer, the metastatic disease is not resectable and the focus of management is on how best to palliate the patient. How to manage the primary tumour is an important part of palliation. A small proportion
- Nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and aspirin for preventing colorectal adenomas and carcinomas
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Apr-2004
There is evidence from experimental animals studies, prospective and retrospective observational studies that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) may reduce the development of sporadic colorectal adenomas (CRAs) and cancer (CRC) and may induce t
- Non‐surgical interventions for late radiation cystitis in patients who have received radical radiotherapy to the pelvis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Jul-2002
Chronic radiation cystitis occurs a minimum of three months after completion of pelvic radiotherapy and represents a range of clinical symptoms for which there is as yet no recommended standard management.
- NSAIDS or paracetamol, alone or combined with opioids, for cancer pain
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-May-2011
NSAIDs are widely applied to treat cancer pain and are frequently combined with opioids in combination preparations for this purpose. However, it is unclear which agent is most clinically efficacious for relieving cancer-related pain, or even what may be
- Nutrition support for bone marrow transplant patients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-May-2014
This is an update of the original Cochrane review published in Issue 2, 2002. Bone marrow transplantation involves administration of toxic chemotherapy and infusion of marrow cells. After treatment, patients can develop poor appetite, mucositis and gastro
- Nutritional support in children and young people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 21-Aug-2015
It is well documented that malnutrition is a common complication of paediatric malignancy and its treatment. Malnutrition can often be a consequence of cancer itself or a result of chemotherapy. Nutritional support aims to reverse malnutrition seen at dia
- Opioids for the management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Oct-2015
This review is an update of a previously published review in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Issue 1, 2006). Breakthrough pain is a transient exacerbation of pain that occurs either spontaneously or in relation to a specific predictable or un
- Optimal primary surgical treatment for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Feb-2015
Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer among women. In addition to diagnosis and staging, primary surgery is performed to achieve optimal cytoreduction (surgical efforts aimed at removing the bulk of the tumour) as the amount of residual tumour is
