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Current Oncology, Volume 26, Issue 4

August 2019 - 31 articles

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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
1,335 Views
6 Pages

Utility of a Chemotherapy Toxicity Prediction Tool for Older Patients in a Community Setting

  • C. Mariano,
  • R. Jamal,
  • P. Bains,
  • S. Hejazi,
  • L. Chao,
  • J. Wan and
  • J. Ho

1 August 2019

Background: Expert groups have recommended incorporation of a geriatric assessment into clinical practice for older patients starting oncologic therapy. However, that practice is not standard primarily because of resource limitations. In the present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
1,359 Views
7 Pages

An Evaluation of the Safety of Continuing Trastuzumab Despite Overt Left Ventricular Dysfunction

  • C.C. Barron,
  • M.M. Alhussein,
  • U. Kaur,
  • T.L. Cosman,
  • N.K. Tyagi,
  • M. Brown,
  • S.D. Mukherjee,
  • P.M. Ellis,
  • S. Dhesy-Thind and
  • D.P. Leong

1 August 2019

Background: The major limitation in the use of trastuzumab therapy is cardiotoxicity. We evaluated the safety of a strategy of continuing trastuzumab in patients with breast cancer despite mild, asymptomatic left ventricular impairment. Methods: Char...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,281 Views
6 Pages

Resource Use in the Last Three Months of Life by Lung Cancer Patients in Southern Ontario

  • Y. Wang,
  • A. Van Dam,
  • M. Slaven,
  • K.J. Ellis,
  • J.R. Goffin,
  • R.A. Juergens and
  • P.M. Ellis

1 August 2019

Background: End-of-life cancer care involves multidisciplinary teams working in various settings. Evaluating the quality of care and the feedback from such processes is an important aspect of health care quality improvement. Our retrospective cohort...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,476 Views
13 Pages

Emerging Therapies for the Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma

  • P. Skrabek,
  • S. Assouline,
  • A. Christofides,
  • D. MacDonald,
  • A. Prica,
  • R. Sangha,
  • B.A. Matthews and
  • L.H. Sehn

1 August 2019

Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma, accounting for approximately 30% of lymphoma cases in Canada. Although most patients will achieve a cure, up to 40% will experience refractory disease after initial treatmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
917 Views
13 Pages

Lessons Learned from a Cancer Knowledge Translation Grants Program: Results of an Evaluation

  • M.A. O’Brien,
  • T. Makuwaza,
  • I.D. Graham,
  • L. Barbera,
  • C.C. Earle,
  • M.C. Brouwers and
  • E. Grunfeld

1 August 2019

Background: A novel way to build capacity in knowledge translation (KT) is through KT-focused grant competitions. Since 2009, the Knowledge Translation Research Network (KT-Net) has had a cancer-related KT grants program. We undertook an evaluation o...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
7 Citations
740 Views
3 Pages

1 August 2019

Metronomic chemotherapy (MCTX) encompasses a set of chemotherapy (CTX) doses significantly below the conventional maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and delivered largely continually (without the prolonged drug-free breaks typical of MTD CTX). [...]

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