Browsing by Subject "oncology"
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Experience and Perceptions of a Family Health History Risk Assessment Tool among Multi-Ethnic Asian Breast Cancer Patients.
(J Pers Med, 2021-10-19)A family health history-based risk assessment is particularly valuable for guiding cancer screening and treatment strategies, yet an optimal implementation depends upon end-users' values and needs. This is not only true ... -
Living with long-term consequences: Experience of follow-up care and support needs among Asian long-term colorectal cancer survivors.
(Psycho-oncology, 2020-10)<h4>Objectives</h4>This study aimed to provide an in-depth exploration of follow-up care experiences and supportive care needs in long-term colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors within multiethnic Asian communities.<h4>Metho... -
Molecular characterization of chordoma xenografts generated from a novel primary chordoma cell source and two chordoma cell lines.
(J Neurosurg Spine, 2014-09)OBJECT: Chordoma cells can generate solid-like tumors in xenograft models that express some molecular characteristics of the parent tumor, including positivity for brachyury and cytokeratins. However, there is a dearth of ... -
Strategies to Prevent Cardiovascular Toxicity in Breast Cancer: Is It Ready for Primetime?
(Journal of clinical medicine, 2020-03-25)Cardio-oncology is an emerging field tasked with identifying and treating cancer therapy related cardiac dysfunction (e.g., cytotoxic agents, immunotherapies, radiation, and hormone therapies) and optimizing the cardiovascular ... -
Therapeutic Aerobic Exercise in a Mouse Model of Breast Cancer: Effects on Tumor Progression, Angiogenesis, and Response to Chemotherapy
(2012)Over the past decade, exercise has gained increasing attention from both clinicians and patients as a beneficial adjunct therapy to maintain or enhance quality of life in breast cancer patients. Recent epidemiological studies ... -
Validation, Assessment, and Application of the Bugando Cancer Registry for Radiotherapy Planning for the Lake Zone of Tanzania
(2018)Purpose: To validate, assess, and utilize the Bugando Cancer Registry (BCR) of Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), Mwanza, Tanzania for radiotherapy (RT) services planning.Methods: For BCR validation, we randomly sampled 63 total ...
