2015
DOI: 10.1111/ecc.12439
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Screening, resilience, patient navigation and information needs - key areas in cancer control

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“…Further search for a primary tumor is almost never fruitful in asymptomatic patients ( 40 ). Whole-body FDG PET is a sensitive tool for detecting a “probable” primary tumor by visualizing foci of abnormal uptake, more often in the lung ( 41 , 42 ), but the specificity in differentiating malignant tumors from benign or inflammatory lesions is relatively low.…”
Section: Diagnosis: Clinical and Neuroimaging Featuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Further search for a primary tumor is almost never fruitful in asymptomatic patients ( 40 ). Whole-body FDG PET is a sensitive tool for detecting a “probable” primary tumor by visualizing foci of abnormal uptake, more often in the lung ( 41 , 42 ), but the specificity in differentiating malignant tumors from benign or inflammatory lesions is relatively low.…”
Section: Diagnosis: Clinical and Neuroimaging Featuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition to the common problems such as uncontrollable pain, oral cancer patients may also suffer from poor quality of sleep, side effects of treatment, fear of treatment failure or disease recurrence, post-operative facial deformity and dysfunction, and heavy financial burden of the treatment. All these and other traumatic experiences challenge patients’ physical, mental and emotional coping capacity [2], so the patients are generally expected to have a higher level of psychological distress. Indeed, it was reported that the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in Chinese head and neck cancer patients was much higher than that of the normal population [3].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%