Objective To get further insight into the breakthrough pain experiences in advanced cancer patients in order to provide targeted nursing measures for breakthrough pain patients. Methods Semi structured interviews were performed in 12 advanced cancer patients. Colaizzi analysis program was used to analyze, induct and extract the themes. Results The breakthrough pain experiences of advanced cancer patients were as follows:overall perception of breakthrough pain;the experience when experiencing breakthrough pain; personal growth related to breakthrough pain. Conclusions Nurses should provide sufficient information to patients timely, consider patients′needs and combine with non-drug methods to better manage breakthrough pain to improve patients′experience about breakthrough pain.

Objective: To understand the experience of young breast cancer patients when disclosing the disease to children. Methods: The phenomenological method was adopted in the study. Semi-structured interviews were performed in 13 young breast cancer patients. The date were analyzed by Colaizzi analysis method. Results: Four themes were found: disclosing decision, professional information needs, feel guilty and worried about children, positive experiences with children. Conclusions The medical staff should reduce patients′ stress of disclosure and make intervention strategy to implement individual guidance.

OBJECTIVES: To explore the relationship between the height of alveolar bone resorption and sex and age in the adolescent dentition. METHODS: Multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) was used to measure the height of alveolar bone resorption at labial, lingual, mesial and distal sites of teeth in 149 adolescents aged from 10 to 20 years. SPSS 25.0 software was used to analyze the relationship between the height of alveolar bone resorption and sex and age. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in the height of alveolar bone resorption between sex (P>0.05). The height of alveolar bone resorption was positively correlated with age in all types of teeth. The model constructed by combining the alveolar bone resorption height data of four sites (y=2.569x₁+3.106x₂+4.108x₃+1.451x₄-0.082, R²_max=0.756)had a better ability to infer age than that of combining two sites (y=5.942x₁+4.489x₂+0.612, R²_max=0.706) and a single site (R²_max=0.638). CONCLUSIONS The height of alveolar bone resorption is positively correlated with the age of adolescents. The combination of four sites has a stronger ability to infer the relationship between the height of alveolar bone resorption and age in adolescents and has higher accuracy in practical application.
Humans ; Adolescent ; Child ; Young Adult ; Adult ; Alveolar Process/diagnostic imaging* ; Cone-Beam Computed Tomography ; Bone Resorption/diagnostic imaging* ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed