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Current Oncology, Volume 32, Issue 7

July 2025 - 44 articles

Cover Story: Patients with advanced cancer benefit from palliative care (PC) alongside curative therapy to improve their quality of life. In Ontario, Canada, cancer patients regularly complete the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System—Revised (ESAS-r) at cancer clinic visits, to quantify the severity of nine symptoms. Previous studies show that individual symptom scores can predict acute care use, and a 2023 study found that ESAS-r symptom complexity, a novel algorithm that labels patients as "low", "medium", or "high" complexity based on the number and severity of symptoms, can predict acute care use among cancer patients. Subsequently, we investigated whether this predictive association holds specifically among adult advanced cancer patients already followed by a cancer outpatient PC service. View this paper
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Articles (44)

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,339 Views
26 Pages

Conventional chemotherapy continues to form the backbone of treatment for many pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors. Advances have been made especially in the molecular underpinning of certain pediatric CNS tumors, allowing for advancement a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,164 Views
14 Pages

Gleason score (GS) is one of the best predictors of prostate cancer (PCa) aggressiveness; however, its biological features need to be elucidated. This study aimed to explore the biological characteristics of localized/locally advanced PCa stratified...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,541 Views
17 Pages

Desmoid tumors are rare, deep-seated myofibroblastic tumors with an unpredictable course, ranging from spontaneous regression to infiltrative growth and locally aggressive behavior, but without metastatic potential. Over the past few decades, advance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,007 Views
13 Pages

Cervical Cancer Screening Cascade: A Framework for Monitoring Uptake and Retention Along the Screening and Treatment Pathway

  • Sara Izadi-Najafabadi,
  • Laurie W. Smith,
  • Anna Gottschlich,
  • Amy Booth,
  • Stuart Peacock and
  • Gina S. Ogilvie

Background: Cervical cancer is a major global health concern, causing approximately 350,000 deaths annually. It is also preventable through effective prevention and early detection. To facilitate elimination, the World Health Organization (WHO) set t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,907 Views
10 Pages

Pemigatinib in the Real-World Management of Cholangiocarcinoma Through a Canadian Patient Support Program

  • Philip Q. Ding,
  • Vincent C. Tam,
  • Ravi Ramjeesingh,
  • Jamil Asselah,
  • Brandon S. Sheffield,
  • Taylor Mitchell,
  • Anne-Julie Gaudreau,
  • Jennifer J. Knox and
  • Winson Y. Cheung

Background: In September 2021, pemigatinib received Health Canada approval for previously treated locally advanced/metastatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) with FGFR2 rearrangements/fusions. This retrospective study aimed to characterize the real-world ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,789 Views
20 Pages

Collecting Data on the Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity in Cancer Care in Canada: Patient and Community Perspectives

  • Jacqueline L. Bender,
  • Eryn Tong,
  • Ekaterina An,
  • Zhihui Amy Liu,
  • Gilla K. Shapiro,
  • Jonathan Avery,
  • Alanna Chu,
  • Christian Schulz-Quach,
  • Sarah Hales and
  • Alies Maybee
  • + 3 authors

Despite advances in cancer care, disparities persist. The collection of the social determinants of health (SDOH) is fundamental to addressing disparities. However, SDOH are inconsistently collected in many regions of the world. This two-phase multipl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,125 Views
19 Pages

Differential BACH1 Expression in Basal-like Breast Tumors of Black Women Identified via Immunohistochemistry

  • N. M. Dowling,
  • Galina Khramtsova,
  • Olufunmilayo Olopade,
  • Shabnam Samankan,
  • Bok-Soon Lee and
  • Jiyoung Lee

BACH1 has been identified as a functional regulator of cancer metastasis and metabolic signaling in breast cancer cells. However, the clinical relevance of BACH1 expression in breast tumors remains poorly understood. Using a tissue microarray from a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,887 Views
15 Pages

MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutations in Lung Cancer: Clinical–Pathological Characteristics and Immune Microenvironment

  • Qianqian Xue,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Qiang Zheng,
  • Ziling Huang,
  • Yicong Lin,
  • Yan Jin and
  • Yuan Li

MET exon 14 skipping mutations have emerged as significant driver alterations in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), contributing to tumor progression. This study examines the immune microenvironment in NSCLC patients with these mutations and its pro...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2,119 Views
26 Pages

Optimizing Adjuvant Care in Early Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Strategies and Innovative Models from Canadian Centers

  • Angela Chan,
  • Nancy Nixon,
  • Muna Al-Khaifi,
  • Alain Bestavros,
  • Christine Blyth,
  • Winson Y. Cheung,
  • Caroline Hamm,
  • Thomas Joly-Mischlich,
  • Mita Manna and
  • Tom McFarlane
  • + 5 authors

The adjuvant treatment landscape for hormone receptor-positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2–) early breast cancer (EBC) is rapidly evolving, with a diverse range of therapeutic options—including endocrine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,369 Views
11 Pages

The recent literature has reported an increased association between the use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (dMPA) and cerebral meningioma (CM). Prior studies have been limited in generalizability and did not use an active comparator as a contro...

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