“We want to try to live the best that we can, knowing that treatment is never-ever going to stop,” she said. Glenn has hiked California mountains and up high seaside hills in Italy while receiving treatment. She works wit...
Ringing a bell to celebrate the end of cancer treatment is a common practice in cancer treatment centers throughout the world. It is meant to be a joyous symbol to mark the end of what can often be a grueling experience. But for some people with cancer, the end of treatment produces a ...
We sought to estimate costs for all phases of lung cancer (pre-diagnosis, staging, initial treatment, continuing care, and terminal care) for use in a policy model of lung cancer that simulates patient lifetimes in monthly increments. Cost estimates in the literature were incomplete for our ...
In Connecticut there was considerable variation by town of residence in the proportions of patients diagnosed in 1985-1988 receiving transurethral resection only, prostatectomy, and irradiation (without surgery) for local-stage prostate cancer and receiving endocrine surgery for late-stage prostate cancer....
care centers. in addition to top cancer centers that treat mesothelioma, veterans may find additional resources through veteran treatment centers . veteran treatment centers are also located across the united states, offering specialized care to those that have served and are now facing a mesothelioma...
The cancer landscape of the USA is continually evolving owing to changing risk factor patterns and disease classifications, improvements in detection and treatment, and demographic changes, such as ageing and population growth. Monitoring the burden of cancer, including incidence and mortality, is a ke...
Physician-pharmacy integration was associated with no discernible benefits for patients in out-of-pocket expenditures, medication adherence, or time to treatment initiation. Meaning Findings of this study suggest that physician-pharmacy integration is not associated with change in the care of patients ...
7 Because advanced-stage PTC is less amenable to treatment than localized PTC, the increasing mortality rates may be a direct consequence of the trends in advanced-stage PTC. To address this question, the current analysis used SEER data during 1974-2013 to compare thyroid cancer incidence and ...
Hope S. Rugo, MD, FASCO, describes her work in medical oncology, previews the upcoming Miami Breast Cancer Conference, and speaks to what she is looking forward to in 2021 with regard to breast cancer treatment.
Design, Setting, and Participants This open-label, phase 3 randomized clinical trial (MYSTIC) was conducted at 203 cancer treatment centers in 17 countries. Patients with treatment-naive, metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who had no sensitizing EGFR or ALK genetic alterations were randomized to...