Adjuvant chemotherapy, an important chemotherapy regimen, should not be abandoned in NPC patients; instead, it may be used to assess whether it confers survival benefit to patients with obvious persistent tumor at the end of RT in clinical trials.
We propose that this diagnostic examination be abandoned in ICU patients.
Although evidence suggests that fasting prior to cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia can be abandoned, in this series, the patients fasted from midnight on the day prior to their surgery.
On the other hand, the initial diagnosis of CWS was abandoned in 16 patients for whom oesophagitis (7), anxiety or somatizing (4), coronary heart disease (3), lung cancer (1) and parietal metastases (1) were diagnosed.
EVAR was abandoned in one patient on the basis of TEE findings of extensive aortic dissection.
Consistent with the progressive nature of diabetes, monotherapy was abandoned in 75% of the patients studied in a follow-up of 9 years (6).
Significantly, planned surgery was abandoned in 26 (60%) of 43 patients because of incremental PET findings.
The problem of last chance therapies still remains that are ineffective, but not to cover this "may create the impression that critically-ill patients are being abandoned in their moment of need [ 84]".
There is no suggestion that any patients drowned or were abandoned in their beds.
These devices did not have any computing or patient interaction functions and were abandoned in subsequent studies.
