Open AccessDisease characteristics and treatment attributes of patients admitted to the oncology ward of a tertiary care government hospital
Author(s) -
Virender Suhag,
Sunita Bs,
Pankaj Vats,
Arti Sarin,
AK Singh,
Mayuri Jain
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_1283_16
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , stage (stratigraphy) , radiation therapy , emergency medicine , paleontology , biology
The burden of oncology patients in the most developing countries including India has witnessed a steady, progressive, and significant upward trend attributed mainly to increased life span, availability of better imaging modalities, increased awareness, and lifestyle and environmental changes. The management of such patients in government setup often presents lots of challenges such as advanced stage of presentation, existence of medical comorbid conditions, scarcity of beds, and long multimodal treatment often complicated with therapy-induced toxicities.