December 2018 - 24 articles
The recent New York Times article with the banner headline Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals and the subsequent discussion about Dr. Jose Baselga [...]
Background Social support has been shown to buffer some difficulties of living with advanced cancer. The Palliative Rehabilitation Program (prp) was an interdisciplinary outpatient program offering post-treatment palliative rehabilitation to patients...
Background: We aimed to assess current treatment patterns and outcomes in elderly patients with localized gastric and esophageal (GE) cancers. Methods: This retrospective analysis considered patients 75 years of age or older with ge cancers treated d...
Background Communities of practice (cops) have been shown to be effective models for achieving quality outcomes in health care. Objective Here, we describe the application of the cop model to the Canadian oncology context. Methods We established an o...
Background A community of practice (COP) is formally defined as a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and who learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. Communities of practice represent a promising appro...
Background: Nivolumab was the first immuno-oncology agent available for the treatment of lung cancer in Canada. In the present study, we evaluated the real-world benefit of nivolumab in Canadian patients with lung cancer. Methods: Patients included i...
Purpose The most prevalent intervention for localized prostate cancer (pca) is radical prostatectomy (rp), which has a 10-year relative survival rate of more than 90%. The improved survival rate has led to a focus on reducing the burden of treatment-...
Palliative care (PC) is a fundamental component of the cancer care trajectory. Its primary focus is on “the quality of life of people who have a life-threatening illness, and includes pain and symptom management, skilled psychosocial, emotional and s...
Background Little is known about the benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy (adj) in the older population with locally advanced rectal cancer (larc). We evaluated use of adj, survival outcomes, and adj-related toxicity in older patients with larc. Methods...
Background Reducing inflammatory factors in wound exudate is a promising treatment approach for healing wounds in postsurgical breast cancer patients. Traditional Chinese Medicine (tcm) treatments have been shown to be beneficial and safe for optimal...
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