Ongoing research examines COVID-19 vaccination effectiveness in patients with cancer and survivors.
Published in Cancer
Integrative surgical oncology: A model of acute integrative oncology.
Published in Cancer
Integrative oncology has emerged as a recognized medical subspecialty because of growing interest in the use of integrative medicine in modern cancer care on behalf of both patients and providers. Acutherapy and mind-body techniques, such as meditation and yoga, have been shown to aid in symptom control and improve quality of life in oncologic pati...
Impact of adjuvant endocrine therapy in older patients with comorbidities and estrogen receptor-positive, node-negative ...
Published in Cancer
Data are lacking about the benefit of adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) in older patients with multiple comorbidities. The authors sought to determine the effect of ET on the survival of older patients who had multiple comorbidities and estrogen receptor (ER)-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, pathologic node-negative ...
Trends and racial disparities in aggressive end-of-life care for a national sample of women with ovarian cancer.
Published in Cancer
The clinical landscape has moved toward less aggressive end-of-life care for women with ovarian cancer. However, whether there has been a decline in the use of aggressive end-of-life services is unknown. The authors evaluated current national trends and racial disparities in end-of-life care among women with ovarian cancer using the Surveillance, E...
Factors influencing treatment of veterans with advanced prostate cancer.
...Published in Cancer
Treatments for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) differ in toxicity, administration, and evidence. In this study, clinical and nonclinical factors associated with the first-line treatment for CRPC in a national delivery system were evaluated. National electronic laboratory and clinical data from the Veterans Health Administrati...
SearcHPV: a novel approach to identify and assemble human papillomavirus-host genomic integration events in cancer
Published in Cancer
To overcome technical challenges of detecting viral integrations in human papillomavirus-related cancers, we optimized a new pipeline called SearcHPV. Using this tool, we found frequent integration near genes and areas of large structural rearrangements in HPV+ models.
Disparities in magnetic resonance imaging of the prostate for traditionally underserved patients with prostate cancer.
Published in Cancer
Prebiopsy magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the prostate improves detection of significant tumors, while decreasing detection of less-aggressive tumors. Therefore, its use has been increasing over time. In this study, the use of prebiopsy MRI among Medicare beneficiaries with prostate cancer was examined. It was hypothesized that patients of colo...
Decision Fatigue in Low-Value Prostate Cancer Screening
Published in Cancer
This retrospective cohort study of 1,581,826 outpatient appointments spanning 2011–2018 at a large academic health system in the United States is the first study to examine the influence of decision fatigue on value-stratified healthcare behaviors, specifically low-value PSA testing in prostate cancer screening. Outpatient PSA testing behaviors amo...
Racial disparities in mortality for patients with prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy.
Published in Cancer
Although racial disparities in prostate cancer survival are well documented, the relative importance of contributing factors remains unclear. Few studies have examined the disparity between Whites and Hispanics or between Whites and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). Using data from the National Cancer Database for 526,690 patients with...
Ultra-Rare Sarcomas: A Consensus Paper From the Connective Tissue Oncology Society Community of Experts on the Incidence...
...Published in Cancer
BACKGROUND: Among sarcomas, which are rare cancers, many types are exceedingly rare; however, a definition of ultra-rare cancers has not been established. The problem of ultra-rare sarcomas is particularly relevant because they represent unique diseases, and their rarity poses major challenges for diagnosis, understanding disease biology, generatin...
