Time to adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer in National Comprehensive Cancer Network institutions

JL Vandergrift, JC Niland, RL Theriault… - Journal of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background High-quality care must be not only appropriate but also timely. We assessed
time to initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer as well as factors associated …

Effects of self‐directed stress management training and home‐based exercise on quality of life in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: a randomized controlled …

PB Jacobsen, KM Phillips, HSL Jim, BJ Small… - Psycho …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background Research has shown that self‐directed stress management training improves
mental well‐being in patients undergoing chemotherapy. The present study extends this …

Breast cancer risk reduction, version 2.2015

TB Bevers, JH Ward, BK Arun, GA Colditz… - Journal of the National …, 2015 - jnccn.org
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in women in the United States
and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death. To assist women who are at …

Systemic therapy for bone metastases

LS Loftus, S Edwards-Bennett, GH Sokol - Cancer Control, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Accelerated bone loss in patients with cancer is a frequent problem that may
result from invasion of the cancer to bone, paraneoplastic tumor proteins, and/or hormonal …

Xanthopsia and van Gogh's yellow palette

WN Arnold, LS Loftus - Eye, 1991 - nature.com
A survey of van Gogh'S worh from 1886 to 1890 indicated that paintings with a yellow
dominance were numerous, episodic, and multi-regional. His underlying illness, by his own …

Vincent van Gogh's illness: acute intermittent porphyria?

LS Loftus, WN Arnold - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vincent van Gogh died 101 years ago, at the peakofhis artistic power, of complications from
a self inflicted gunshot wound. His hectic life culminated with four extremely productive years …

Is it wise to omit sentinel node biopsy in elderly patients with breast cancer?

J Sun, BJ Mathias, W Sun, WJ Fulp, JM Zhou… - Annals of Surgical …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background The Society of Surgical Oncology's Choosing Wisely® guidelines
recommend against routine sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in clinically node-negative …

Real‐world benefit of combination palbociclib and endocrine therapy for metastatic breast cancer and correlation with neutropenia

J Sun, X Zhong, J Ma, W Sun, HS Han… - Cancer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Combination CDK4/6 inhibitor and endocrine therapy has been shown to
significantly improve progression‐free survival (PFS) in patients with hormone receptor (HR) …

Breast cancer recurrence risk reduction beliefs in breast cancer survivors: prevalence and relation to behavior

JL Burris, PB Jacobsen, LS Loftus… - Psycho …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: There is a growing body of evidence suggesting breast cancer (BC) recurrence
risk might be linked to behavioral factors. However, little is known about BC survivors' beliefs …

[HTML][HTML] Nivolumab and stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with breast cancer brain metastases: a nonrandomized, open-label phase 1b study

KA Ahmed, Y Kim, JA Arrington, S Kim… - Advances in Radiation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose We hypothesize treatment with nivolumab and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) will
be feasible and well tolerated, and may improve intracranial tumor control rates compared …