Issue 11/2018
Content (38 Articles)
Sleep evaluation by questionnaires and actigraphy in patients with cancer
Tomoyuki Kawada
The application of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) in cancer rehabilitation: current prescription, pitfalls, and future directions
Dominic O’Connor, Brian Caulfield
Prehabilitation for surgical oncology patients: empowering patient volition
Rahul Jain, Leslie Gibson, Natalie Coburn
Chemotherapy drug concentrations in hair follicles: a potential biomarker to monitor the effectiveness of scalp cooling for chemotherapy-induced alopecia
Jung-Woo Chae, Raymond Ng, Alexandre Chan
Associated factors and costs of avoidable visits to the emergency department among cancer patients: 1-year experience in a tertiary care hospital in South Korea
Tak Kyu Oh, You Hwan Jo, Jae Wook Choi
Portraying a grim illness: lung cancer in novels, poems, films, music, and paintings
Ad A. Kaptein, Melissa S. Y. Thong
Development of a simplified multivariable model to predict neutropenic complications in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
Abolfazl Razzaghdoust, Bahram Mofid, Maryam Moghadam
Muslim physicians and palliative care: attitudes towards the use of palliative sedation
George Muishout, Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven, Gerard Wiegers, Ulrike Popp-Baier
Knowledge, attitudes, and practice of oncologists and oncology health care providers in promoting physical activity to cancer survivors: an international survey
Sarah J. Hardcastle, Robert Kane, Paola Chivers, Dana Hince, Andrew Dean, Dominic Higgs, Paul A. Cohen
Feasibility and accessibility of electronic patient-reported outcome measures using a smartphone during routine chemotherapy: a pilot study
Woo Kyun Bae, Jihyun Kwon, Hyun Woo Lee, Sang-Cheol Lee, Eun-Kee Song, Hyeok Shim, Keun Ho Ryu, Jemin Song, Sungbo Seo, Yaewon Yang, Jong-Hyock Park, Ki Hyeong Lee, Hye Sook Han
Using patient-reported outcome measures to deliver enhanced supportive care to people with lung cancer: feasibility and acceptability of a nurse-led consultation model
Grigorios Kotronoulas, Constantina Papadopoulou, Mhairi F. Simpson, John McPhelim, Lynn Mack, Roma Maguire
Impact of a web-based prostate cancer treatment decision aid on patient-reported decision process parameters: results from the Prostate Cancer Patient Centered Care trial
Maarten Cuypers, Romy E. D. Lamers, Paul J. M. Kil, Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse, Marieke de Vries
A pragmatic comparative study of palliative care clinician’s reports of the degree of shadowing visible on plain abdominal radiographs
Katherine Clark, L. Lam, N. J. Talley, G. Watts, J. L. Phillips, N. J. Byfieldt, D. C. Currow
Patterns, perceptions, and perceived barriers to physical activity in adult cancer survivors
Lawson Eng, Dan Pringle, Jie Su, XiaoWei Shen, Mary Mahler, Chongya Niu, Rebecca Charow, Kyoko Tiessen, Christine Lam, Oleksandr Halytskyy, Hiten Naik, Henrique Hon, Margaret Irwin, Vivien Pat, Christina Gonos, Catherine Chan, Jodie Villeneuve, Luke Harland, Ravi M. Shani, M. Catherine Brown, Peter Selby, Doris Howell, Wei Xu, Geoffrey Liu, Shabbir M. H. Alibhai, Jennifer M. Jones
Does implementation matter if comprehension is lacking? A qualitative investigation into perceptions of advance care planning in people with cancer
Anna Ugalde, Clare O’Callaghan, Clem Byard, Samantha Brean, Jenelle MacKay, Anna Boltong, Sondra Davoren, Deborah Lawson, Phillip Parente, Natasha Michael, Patricia Livingston
Evaluation of factors contributing to the response to fosaprepitant in a heterogeneous, moderately emetogenic chemotherapy population: an exploratory analysis of a randomized phase III trial
Cindy Weinstein, Karin Jordan, Stuart A. Green, Elber Camacho, Saleem Khanani, Elizabeth Beckford-Brathwaite, Annpey Pong, Stephen J. Noga, Bernardo L. Rapoport
Metastatic breast cancer patients’ expectations and priorities for symptom improvement
Danielle B. Tometich, Catherine E. Mosher, Adam T. Hirsh, Kevin L. Rand, Shelley A. Johns, Marianne S. Matthias, Samantha D. Outcalt, Bryan P. Schneider, Lida Mina, Anna Maria V. Storniolo, Erin V. Newton, Kathy D. Miller
A telephone outcall program to support caregivers of people diagnosed with cancer: utility, changes in levels of distress, and unmet needs
Leila Heckel, Kate M. Fennell, Liliana Orellana, Anna Boltong, Monica Byrnes, Patricia M. Livingston
Neuropsychological profiles of breast cancer and brain tumor cohorts in Northeast Ontario, Canada
Matias Mariani, Mark William Glister Collins
Characterization of low active ghrelin ratio in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer
Tomofumi Miura, Shuichi Mitsunaga, Masafumi Ikeda, Izumi Ohno, Hideaki Takahashi, Hidetaka Suzuki, Ai Irisawa, Takeshi Kuwata, Atsushi Ochiai
Predictive value of PCT and IL-6 for bacterial infection in children with cancer and febrile neutropenia
Hilde T. van der Galiën, Erik A. H. Loeffen, Karin G. E. Miedema, Wim J. E. Tissing
Impact of ferric carboxymaltose on the evolution of hemoglobin and ECOG performance status in iron-deficient patients with solid tumors: a 3-month follow-up retrospective study
J. Coussirou, A. Debourdeau, A. Stancu, C. Jean, W. Azouza, B. Chanet, F. De Crozals, R. Boustany, P. Debourdeau
Mood, sexuality, and relational intimacy after starting androgen deprivation therapy: implications for couples
Lauren M. Walker, Pablo Santos-Iglesias, John Robinson
Utility of Mayo Clinic’s early screen for discharge planning tool for predicting patient length of stay, discharge destination, and readmission risk in an inpatient oncology cohort
Caitlyn P. Socwell, Lucy Bucci, Sharni Patchell, Erika Kotowicz, Lara Edbrooke, Rodney Pope
Supportive care priorities of low-income Latina breast cancer survivors
Alix G. Sleight, Kathleen Doyle Lyons, Cheryl Vigen, Heather Macdonald, Florence Clark
Japanese physicians’ attitudes toward end-of-life discussion with pediatric patients with cancer
Saran Yoshida, Chitose Ogawa, Ken Shimizu, Mariko Kobayashi, Hironobu Inoguchi, Yoshio Oshima, Chikako Dotani, Rika Nakahara, Masashi Kato
Matrix metalloproteinase expression is altered in the small and large intestine following fractionated radiation in vivo
Romany L. Stansborough, Noor Al-Dasooqi, Emma H. Bateman, Joanne M. Bowen, Dorothy M. K. Keefe, Richard M. Logan, Ann S. J. Yeoh, Eric E. K. Yeoh, Andrea M. Stringer, Rachel J. Gibson
Awareness of dysgeusia and gustatory tests in patients undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer
Sayaka Kuba, Rie Fujiyama, Kosho Yamanouchi, Michi Morita, Chika Sakimura, Toshiko Hatachi, Megumi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Yano, Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, Naomi Hayashida, Takeshi Nagayasu, Susumu Eguchi
The effects of a video-based education in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer in Singapore
May Leng Tan, Kim Hua Lee, Wei Sean Yong, Cheryl Rodgers
Cefepime vs. cefoperazone/sulbactam in combination with amikacin as empirical antibiotic therapy in febrile neutropenia
M. Ponraj, Biswajit Dubashi, B. H. Harish, S. Kayal, S. L. Cyriac, Jogamaya Pattnaik, K. Ranjith, Unni S. Pillai, Naresh Jadhav, Kiran K. Matta, Jagdeep Singh, Esha Jaffa, Bhanu Prakash
Nasal vestibulitis: an under-recognized and under-treated side effect of cancer treatment?
Elizabeth Cathcart-Rake, Deanne Smith, David Zahrieh, Aminah Jatoi, Ping Yang, Charles L. Loprinzi
Self-monitoring physical activity with a smartphone application in cancer patients: a randomized feasibility study (SMART-trial)
Harm L. Ormel, Gabriela G. F. van der Schoot, Nico-Derk L. Westerink, Wim J. Sluiter, Jourik A. Gietema, Annemiek M. E. Walenkamp
Investigating the prognostic ability of health-related quality of life on survival: a prospective cohort study of adults with lung cancer
Laura C. Pinheiro, Bryce B. Reeve
Ongoing ostomy self-care challenges of long-term rectal cancer survivors
Joanna E. Bulkley, Carmit K. McMullen, Marcia Grant, Christopher Wendel, Mark C. Hornbrook, Robert S. Krouse
Do drugs offering only PFS maintain quality of life sufficiently from a patient’s perspective? Results from AVALPROFS (Assessing the ‘VALue’ to patients of PROgression Free Survival) study
V. Jenkins, V. Farewell, S. May, S. Catt, L. Matthews, V. Shilling, J. Dickson, R. Simcock, L. Fallowfield
Factors associated with discharge disposition on an acute palliative care unit
David Hausner, Nanor Kevork, Ashley Pope, Breffni Hannon, John Bryson, Jenny Lau, Gary Rodin, Lisa W. Le, Camilla Zimmermann
Impact of radiation-induced nausea and vomiting on quality of life
Caitlin Yee, Leah Drost, Liying Zhang, Bo Angela Wan, Vithusha Ganesh, May Tsao, Elizabeth Barnes, Mark Pasetka, Carlo DeAngelis, Edward Chow
Predictors of burden and quality of sleep among family caregivers of patients with cancer
Laila I. Al-Daken, Muayyad M. Ahmad