Contribution by Surgical Oncologist in Palliating Cancer Patients - Retrospective analysis at Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre, Cuttack, India
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
A total of 583 cancer patients needing emergency surgical intervention treated in the surgical oncology department during period of 5 years and 10 months from April 2011 to January 2017 at Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre, Cuttack were evaluated retrospectively. Most commonly encountered was gastric out let obstruction due to distal gastric carcinoma,total gastric obstruction needing a feeding jejunostomy tube insertion,large gut obstruction needing colostomy,next being acute dyspnoea following massive pleural effusion due to either primary or secondary lungs or pleural malignancy. Next common events were obstructive jaundice, intestinal obstruction, GI hemorrhage, hematuria, acute strider, obstructive uropathy, hollow viscous perforation in that order. The observations with regard to their incidence, etiology etc were compared to those found in literature, which was briefly reviewed and evaluated the contribution of surgical oncologist in cancer care at the above center.
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Prafulla Kumar Das
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