American Cancer Society (ACS) program teaches patients with cancer how to repair their physical image when faced with the changes in their appearance brought on by cancer treatments.
For those aged 75 to 84 years, LIS receipt linked to increased odds of receiving immunomodulatory drugs
Researchers find many still prescribed long-term disease-preventing medications
American Indians/Alaska Natives may face barriers to cancer diagnosis and care that can be overcome via cultural navigation services.
Although significant variation in care persists, underuse and misuse of adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer has decreased since 2004.
Questions over potential bias in the activities of industry-supported patient advocacy groups spark the call for closer review and transparency.
Real-time reporting and integration of patient symptom reports into clinical practice could benefit patients, but practical obstacles remain.
A recent paper on the future of radiation oncology reports on the trend toward a greater role for shared decision making and patient-reported outcomes, such as the interrelated benchmarks of patient satisfaction, engagement, and treatment-plan adherence.
Researchers report their study findings on the safety of omitting radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery, sentinel node biopsy, and adjuvant endocrine therapy in older patients with early breast cancer and favorable histopathology at SABCS 2016.
Investigators examined the extent to which hospital volume explains variations in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
