Dumond, Aurore Brachet, Etienne Durivault, Jérôme Vial, Valérie Puszko, Anna K. Lepelletier, Yves Montemagno, Christopher Pagnuzzi-Boncompagni, Marina Hermine, Olivier Garbay, Christiane
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Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
BackgroundDespite the improvement of relapse-free survival mediated by anti-angiogenic drugs like sunitinib (Sutent®), or by combinations of anti-angiogenic drugs with immunotherapy, metastatic clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (mccRCC) remain incurable. Hence, new relevant treatments are urgently needed. The VEGFs coreceptors, Neuropilins 1, 2 (NRP1...
Smith, A M Leeming, A Fang, Z Hatchard, T Mioduszewski, O Schneider, M A Ferdossifard, A Shergill, Y Khoo, E-L Poulin, P
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Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice
Breast cancer continues to be the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Canadian women, with as many as 25-60% of women suffering from chronic neuropathic pain (CNP) as a pervasive consequence of treatment. While pharmacological interventions have shown limited efficacy for the management of CNP to date, psychological interventions, such as mindfuln...
van der Kruk, Shannen R Gunn, Kate M Mesters, Ilse Lynch, Brigid M Vallance, Jeff K Boyle, Terry
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Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
To investigate the longitudinal associations between demographic, clinical and lifestyle factors, and changes in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in cancer survivors 6-9 years post-diagnosis in Western Australia. A total of 290 individuals participated in this study. Three-quarters of participants were female, and 55%, 31%, and 14% were survivors o...
Zahlis, Ellen H Lewis, Frances Marcus
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Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
To describe spouse caregivers' perceived gains in their own words from participating in a fully manualized 5-session educational counseling program whose goals were to enhance their self-care and skills to interpersonally support their wife with breast cancer. Interviews from 81 spouses obtained 7 months after exiting from a fully manualized educat...
Adams, Jessica L Martin, Michelle Y Pisu, Maria Oster, Robert A Qu, Haiyan Shewchuk, Richard M Sheffield, Mary E Minter, Alex Baumann, Ana A Rogers, Laura Q
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Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
To qualitatively explore exercise barriers and facilitators experienced by rural female cancer survivors from the program interventionist and recipient perspective for the purpose of enhancing exercise program implementation and uptake in rural settings. A descriptive qualitative study design was utilized. Focus groups were conducted prior to imple...
Ahmed, Hoda Abdel Kareem FarghalyAmin, Mohamed
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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
BackgroundLung assessment is highly recommended in the management of oncology patients as it is the commonest affected site in metastatic dissemination. The low-dose CT with nodule reporting system based on Lung Reporting and Data System (lung-RADS) is a promising non-invasive tool for the characterization of incidentally detected pulmonary nodules...
Kettis, Åsa Fagerlind, Hanna Frödin, Jan-Erik Glimelius, Bengt Ring, Lena
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Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
BackgroundEffective patient-physician communication can improve patient understanding, agreement on treatment and adherence. This may, in turn, impact on clinical outcomes and patient quality of life (QoL). One way to improve communication is by using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). Heretofore, studies of the impact of using PROMs in cli...
Agbejule, Oluwaseyifunmi Andi Hart, Nicolas H. Ekberg, Stuart Bogda, Koczwara Ladwa, Rahul Simonsen, Camilla Pinkham, Elizabeth P. Chan, Raymond Javan
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BMC Cancer
BackgroundCancer-related fatigue (CRF) is one of the most common and distressing symptoms in people with cancer. Although efficacy of interventions for CRF have been extensively investigated, less has been done to ensure successful translation into routine clinical practice. The aim of this systematic scoping review was to synthesise knowledge surr...
Jang, Min Kyeong Kim, Sue Park, Chang Gi Collins, Eileen G. Quinn, Lauretta T. Glynn, Nancy W. Ferrans, Carol Estwing
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
BackgroundFatigability has recently emerged in oncology as a concept that anchors patients’ perceptions of fatigue to defined activities of specified duration and intensity. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Pittsburgh Fatigability Scale (K-PFS) for women with breast cancer.MethodsThis cross-sectio...
Mattila, Phyllis Ocran Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din Suleman, Fatima
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundPrices of cancer medicines are a major contributor to the cost of treatment for cancer patients and the comparison of these cost needs to be assessed.ObjectivesTo assess the prices of cancer medicines for the three most common cancers ((breast, prostate and colorectal) in the private healthcare sector of South Africa.MethodsThe methodolog...
