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Discussing Health Disinformation: Politicizing Pestilence | Discutindo a Desinf...

The COVID Pandemic refreshed the Global Society’s collective memory of just how vital Human Security is to its inner workings. However, it also opened a niche of action for Powers bent on sabotaging and domineering their rivals. In managing death and disease many hard to shed historical sensibilities come to light, making them into prime targets for Disinformation. By cross-referencing material on the evolution...

Impact of perioperative chemotherapy on postoperative morbidity after gastrecto...

Introduction: The use of perioperative chemotherapy (CT) in patients with advanced gastric carcinoma increases their overall survival. This therapy may also increase the number of patients with R0 resection. Potential drawbacks of this therapy, besides its toxicity, include increased surgical morbidity. Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the records of patients undergoing gastrectomy with curative intent, fo...

UPPER THORACIC FIELD LYMPHADENECTOMY FOR OESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA

Vídeo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxbwOHBHp24; A neoplasia do esófago é a sexta causa de morte neoplásica a nível mundial e a sua incidência tem vindo a aumentar. A cirurgia com correspondente linfadenectomia é o único tratamento com intenção curativa. A linfadenectomia mediastínica superior aborda os gânglios do grupo 105, 106 recR e L, 106 tbR e tbL e 106 pre. A linfadenectomia destes territórios est...

Complete pathological response (pCR) in gastroesophageal cancer: Correlation wi...

Purpose. - Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) followed by surgery in patients with resectable esophageal or esophagogastric junctional (GEJ) (Siewert I) cancer is associated with long term overall survival benefits. Up to one third of all patients submitted to nCRT present pathological complete response (pCR). F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with CT (F-18-FDG PET-CT) is an important tool ...

Health promotion and health care professional’s perspectives about its strength...

Apresentação sobre Promoção da Saúde no contexto da Carta de Ottawa (1986): “a promoção da Saúde é o processo que visa criar condições para que as pessoas aumentem a sua capacidade de controlar os fatores determinantes da saúde, no sentido de a melhorar”.

Comportamentos de admissão de doentes nos hospitais em Portugal: selecção adversa?

Análise de uma estatística da actividade assistencial numa unidade hospitalar d...