Should patients with advanced, incurable cancers ever be sent home with total parenteral nutrition? A single institution's 20-year experience

Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 863-868

  Hoda, Daanish ^a   Jatoi, Aminah ^a   Burnes, Jan ^a   Loprinzi, Charles ^a   Kelly, Darlene ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Complications; Long term survival; Total parenteral nutrition

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANOREXIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; CATHETER INFECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALABSORPTION; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NAUSEA; OVARY CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOSIS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, HOME TOTAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 13444265881     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20824     Document Type: Review

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