Acute care

This summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the treatment of rectal cancer.

This summary addresses the following topics:

• General information
  • Adjuvant therapy
  • Advanced disease
• Cellular classification
• Stage information
  • TNM definitions
  • American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage groupings
• Treatment...

This tool addresses common questions about migraine headaches including:

• What is a migraine headache?
• What causes migraine?
• Are there different kinds of migraine?
• How does a migraine headache differ from a tension headache?
• When should I seek help for my headaches?
• What tests are used to find out if I have migraine?
• Are women more prone to migraine headaches?
• How is a woman’s menstrual cycle related to migraine?
• Can...

This 106-page guide from the American Cancer Society provides detailed information about breast cancer, including information on risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

This guide addresses the following topics:

• What is cancer?
• What is breast cancer?
  • Normal breast structure
  • Benign breast lumps
  • Breast cancer general terms
  • Types of breast cancers
• What are the key statistics about breast cancer?...

This three-page guideline summary is a 2006 update of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) recommendations for the use of antiemetics in oncology.

This guideline summary addresses the following topics:

• Chemotherapy-induced emesis
• Radiation-induced emesis

Three tables summarize the following topics:

• Antiemetic agents and regimens, emetic risk categories, special emetic problems, and radiation-induced emesis
• Emetic risk of...

This toolkit presents information about chronic dry eye.

This tool addresses the following topics:

• Job categories with workplace conditions most likely to aggravate dry eye
• Chronic dry eye overview
  • What is chronic dry eye?
  • What factors contribute to dry eye?
  • How is chronic dry eye diagnosed?
  • How can dry eye be treated?
• Fast facts
  • Chronic dry eye: What women should know
  • The...

This PDQ cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the classification and treatment of adult brain tumors. This tool is available in English and Spanish.

This tool is organized into the following sections:

• General information
• Classification
• Treatment option overview
• Brain stem gliomas
• Pineal astrocytic tumors
• Pilocytic astrocytomas
• ...

This fact sheet provides consumer information about the different types of diabetes.

This fact sheet addresses the following topics:

• Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes
• Gestational diabetes

This wallet card presents the eight key points health care practitioners should follow regarding the diagnosis and management of dyslipidemia.

This summary provides patients with information on treatment options for colon cancer.

This summary addresses the following topics:

• General information about colon cancer
• Stages of colon cancer
• Recurrent colon cancer
• Treatment options overview
• Treatment options for colon cancer
  • Stage 0 colon cancer
  • Stage I colon cancer
  • Stage II colon cancer
  • Stage III colon cancer
  • Stage IV and...

This tool cites examples of personal uncertainties, family relationship changes, work disruptions, and financial worries that may contribute to the long-term impact of a traumatic event. This tool also includes tips on how to survive the road to recovery from a traumatic event.

This tool addresses the following topics:

• Things to remember when trying to understand disaster events
• Signs that stress management assistance is needed
• Ways to ease the stress
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