Current Oncology, Volume 20, Issue 6

Today, most oncologists would agree that Anderson’s statement is common sense and subscribe to its expressed wisdom. [...]

Background: After treatment, patients with active cancer face a considerable burden from the effects of both the disease and its treatment. The Palliative Rehabilitation Program (PRP) is designed to ameliorate disease effects and to improve the patie...

Background: Cancer can affect many dimensions of a patient’s life, and in turn, it should be targeted using a multimodal approach. We tested the extent to which an interdisciplinary nutrition–rehabilitation program can improve the well-being of patie...

Objective: To be useful to policymakers and stakeholders, cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAS) should be published in a timely manner and without bias. The aims of the present study were to examine the time between conference abstract presentation and...

Background: The survival benefit for single-agent anti–epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy compared with combination therapy with irinotecan in KRAS wildtype (wt) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients in the third-line treatment se...

Purpose: Imaging by fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography (PET) has emerged as a valuable tool in the management of locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC), both for assessment of lymph node status and determination of response to chemoradi...

Background: Healthy lifestyle behaviours may improve outcomes for people with colorectal cancer (CRC), but the intention to take action and to change those behaviours may vary with time and resource availability. We aimed to estimate the prevalence o...

Health services researchers have consistently identified a gap between what is identified as “best practice” and what actually happens in clinical care. Despite nearly two decades of a growing evidence-based practice movement, narrowing the knowledge...

Background: Prostate cancer (pca) is the most common non-skin cancer among men in Canada and other Western countries. Increased prevalence and higher cost of newer treatments have led to a significant rise in the economic burden of pca. The objective...

Background: Patients with cancer are often treated with glucocorticoids (GCS) as part of therapy, which may cause hyperglycemia. We sought to define the prevalence of, and risk factors for, hyperglycemia in this setting. Methods: Adult patients takin...

Breast cancer is heterogenous, with variable expression of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). Overexpression of HER2 is generally considered a negative prognostic feature, but...

Objective: We investigated the prognostic clinicopathologic factors associated with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in the once-daily continuous administration of first-line sunitinib in a consecutive cohort of Turkish patie...

Objective: Malnutrition and psychological distress are often seen in patients with head-and-neck cancer, but little is known about the interrelationships between those two symptoms. The present study examined the relationship between malnutrition and...

Background: There is interest in the use of health information technology in the form of personal health record (PHR) systems to support patient needs for health information, care, and decision-making, particularly for patients with distressing, chro...

Background: The Distress Thermometer (DT) is a screening tool recommended to quickly identify cancer patients with distress. Our study aimed to examine the sensitivity and specificity of the DT in detecting psychological distress in long-term Chinese...

Purpose: We used a superficial parotid lobe–sparing delineation approach for dose optimization with better protection for the parotid glands in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients. Methods: Compared wit...

Objective and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed clinicopathologic features and survival in breast cancer patients who had T1 or T2 primary tumours and 1–3 histologically involved axillary lymph nodes and who were treated with modified radical mast...

Multiple randomized trials have demonstrated that breast-conserving therapy with partial mastectomy and radiotherapy provides survival equivalent to that seen with mastectomy for patients with early-stage breast cancer. Breast-conserving therapy has...

Background: Cancer can be a devastating diagnosis. In particular, malignancy and its indicated treatments have profoundly negative effects on the fertility of young cancer patients. Oncofertility has emerged as a new interdisciplinary field to addres...

The classic description of a metaphor is that it is a linguistic construction of the format A is B.[...]

Market Velker et al.¹ recently reported an unusual case of adenocarcinoma arising from the minor salivary gland located on the dorsum of the posterior one third of the tongue in a 66-year-old woman.[...]

Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women¹, and estrogen receptor (ER)–positive breast cancer is the most common subtype².

We thank the writers of the letter to the editor titled “Adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified or cribriform adenocarcinoma on dorsum of tongue?”[...]