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Current Oncology, Volume 30, Issue 9

September 2023 - 64 articles

Cover Story: One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer (BC) over their lifetime. An accurate understanding of BC treatment cost is critical given the health system economic impacts. Activity-Based Costing (ABC) is a micro-costing method that maps patient activities along a treatment trajectory. ABC reflects evidence-based practices for treatment algorithms, clinician and patient preferences, and is effective when treatments are rapidly evolving. We use ABC to determine a per case cost for BC by stage and molecular subtype. We proportionally integrate multidisciplinary evidence-based patient and provider treatment options to yield a single case cost for the total duration of treatment. The real-time case-based nature of our model allows the actual cost of BC treatment to be better understood and compared with previous estimates. View this paper
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Articles (64)

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,701 Views
21 Pages

Current Evidence for Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  • Victoria Foy,
  • Mairéad G. McNamara,
  • Juan W. Valle,
  • Angela Lamarca,
  • Julien Edeline and
  • Richard A. Hubner

21 September 2023

The treatment of advanced unresectable HCC (aHCC) remains a clinical challenge, with limited therapeutic options and poor prognosis. The results of IMbrave150 and HIMALAYA have changed the treatment paradigm for HCC and established immune checkpoint...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,222 Views
12 Pages

21 September 2023

Gastroentero-pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (GEP-NENs) are a diverse group of rare tumors that arise from neuroendocrine cells in the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas, and they can vary significantly in terms of clinical behavior and prognosi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,752 Views
20 Pages

Assessing the Efficacy of a 28-Day Comprehensive Online Prostate Cancer Patient Empowerment Program (PC-PEP) in Facilitating Engagement of Prostate Cancer Patients in Their Survivorship Care: A Qualitative Study

  • Gabriela Ilie,
  • Cody MacDonald,
  • Hal Richman,
  • Ricardo Rendon,
  • Ross Mason,
  • Alexandra Nuyens,
  • Greg Bailly,
  • David Bell,
  • Nikhilesh Patil and
  • David Bowes
  • + 5 authors

21 September 2023

A 28-day Prostate Cancer-Patient Empowerment Program (PC-PEP) developed through patient engagement was successful at promoting mental and physical health. Thirty prostate cancer patients from Halifax, Canada participated in the 28-day PC-PEP interven...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,598 Views
21 Pages

Pediatric-Inspired Regimens in the Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Systematic Review

  • Aida Zeckanovic,
  • Philipp Fuchs,
  • Philip Heesen,
  • Nicole Bodmer,
  • Maria Otth and
  • Katrin Scheinemann

20 September 2023

Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have significantly worse outcomes than their younger counterparts. Current treatment guidelines rely mostly on non-randomized retrospective studies. We performed a systematic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,463 Views
10 Pages

20 September 2023

Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is primarily treated with combination chemotherapy, while whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) can be used as consolidative treatment or as a salvage option for central nervous system (CNS) relapse. We inves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,731 Views
16 Pages

Prioritizing Solutions and Improving Resources among Young Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors: Results of an Online Survey

  • Marco Bonanno,
  • Claude Julie Bourque,
  • Lye-Ann Robichaud,
  • Ariane Levesque,
  • Ariane Lacoste-Julien,
  • Émélie Rondeau,
  • Émilie Dubé,
  • Michelle Leblanc,
  • Marie-Claude Bertrand and
  • Carole Provost
  • + 2 authors

19 September 2023

Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors (PBTS) often experience social, academic and employment difficulties during aftercare. Despite their needs, they often do not use the services available to them. Following a previous qualitative study, we formulated so...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,109 Views
11 Pages

19 September 2023

A cancer diagnosis and its subsequent treatments are life-changing events, impacting the patient and their family. Treatment options available for cancer care are developing at pace, with more patients now able to achieve a cancer cure. This is achie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,144 Views
12 Pages

Capecitabine/Mitomycin versus 5-Fluorouracil/Mitomycin in Combination with Simultaneous Integrated Boost Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Anal Cancer

  • Laurent Mineur,
  • Léa Vazquez,
  • Mohamed Belkacemi,
  • Clémence Toullec,
  • Newfel Bentaleb,
  • Rania Boustany and
  • Frederi Plat

18 September 2023

Since EXTRA, a non-randomized phase II trial with 31 patients, explored the use of capecitabine, mitomycin and radiation therapy (RT) in the treatment of localized squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal (SCCAC), this treatment has been considered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,885 Views
13 Pages

Healthcare and Cancer Treatment Costs of Breast Screening Outcomes among Higher than Average Risk Women

  • Nicole Mittmann,
  • Kristina M. Blackmore,
  • Soo Jin Seung,
  • Christina Diong,
  • Susan J. Done and
  • Anna M. Chiarelli

18 September 2023

Concurrent cohorts of 644,932 women aged 50–74 screened annually due to family history, dense breasts or biennially in the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) from 2011–2014 were linked to provincial administrative datasets to determi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,736 Views
49 Pages

15 September 2023

Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults. The prognosis is extremely poor even with standard treatment of maximal safe resection, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Recurrence is inevitable within months, and treatment opt...

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