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Background
Cancer patients often prefer to die at home, a location associated with better quality of death (QoD). Several studies demonstrate disparities in end‐of‐life care among immigrant populations in the United States. This study aimed to evaluate how immigrant status affects location and quality of death among patients with advanced cancer in the United States.
Methods
Data were derived from...
Background
Opioid misuse is a public health crisis, and unused postoperative opioids are an important source. Although 70% of pills prescribed go unused, only 9% are discarded. This study evaluated whether an inexpensive pill‐dispensing device with mail return capacity could enhance disposal of unused opioids after cancer surgery.
Methods
A prospective pilot study was conducted among adult patients...
Background
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with sarcoma experience both acute and chronic pain related to their disease and treatment. Studies in older adults have reported a high risk of persistent opioid use after cancer therapy among previously opioid‐naive patients; however, few studies have evaluated posttreatment opioid use among AYAs. This article describes patterns of new persistent opioid...
Background
Mounting evidence suggests disproportionate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) hospitalizations and deaths because of racial disparities. The association of race in a cohort of gynecologic oncology patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome‐coronavirus 2 infection is unknown.
Methods
Data were abstracted from gynecologic oncology patients with COVID‐19 infection among 8 New York...
Background
New York City (NYC) is the epicenter of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID‐19]) in the United States. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of vulnerable populations, such as those with gynecologic cancer who develop COVID‐19 infections, is limited.
Methods
Patients from 6 NYC‐area hospital systems with known gynecologic cancer and a COVID‐19...
Background
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among patients with early‐stage breast cancer (BC), but adherence to cardiovascular disease risk factor (CVD‐RF) medications is reported to be poor in BC survivors. The objective of the current study was to determine the association between nonadherence to CVD‐RF medications and cardiovascular events in BC survivors.
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Optimal treatments for vulvar and vaginal melanomas (VVMs) have not been identified. Herein, the authors compare molecular profiles between VVM and nongynecologic melanoma (NGM) subtypes with the objective of identifying novel, targetable biomarkers.
METHODS
In total, 2304 samples of malignant melanoma that were submitted to Caris Life Sciences between 2009 and 2015 were reviewed. In...
BACKGROUNDDespite recent interest in the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer, the acceptance of expectant management for patients with indolent prostate cancer has remained slow. Moreover, the intensity of surveillance strategies remains to be elucidated. The objective of this study was to determine the population‐based intensity of surveillance strategy among patients diagnosed with...
BACKGROUNDObservational studies comparing neoadjuvant chemotherapy to primary surgery for advanced‐stage ovarian cancer are limited by strong selection bias. Multiple methods were used to control for confounding and selection bias to estimate the effect of primary treatment on survival for ovarian cancer.
METHODSThe Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)‐Medicare database was used to...
BACKGROUND:Cervical cancer is common in the elderly. The authors examined the patterns of care, treatment, and outcomes of elderly women with cervical cancer.
METHODS:Women with cervical cancer diagnosed between 1988 and 2005 and registered in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database were analyzed. Patients were stratified by age: <50, 50 to 59, 60 to 69, 70 to 79, and ≥80 years...
BACKGROUND:Very few published studies have dealt with the management of locally advanced cervix carcinoma among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‐positive patients. The objective of this study was to compare the clinical characteristics, radiation and chemotherapy treatments, and outcomes in a cohort of HIV‐positive and HIV‐negative women with cervical cancer.
METHODS:The authors reviewed the charts...
BACKGROUND.Despite the diagnostic value of lymphadenectomy for early‐stage cervical cancer, its therapeutic role is unknown. We examined the therapeutic potential of extensive lymphadenectomy in women with early‐stage cervical cancer.
METHODS.Women with stage IA2‐IIA cervical cancer who underwent radical hysterectomy with lymphadenectomy in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database...
BACKGROUND:Although several studies had examined secondary malignancies in patients with specific primary tumor types, to the authors' knowledge there are very few data examining the long‐term sequelae of pelvic radiation as a whole. The goal of the current study was to examine the risk of treatment‐associated leukemia and multiple myeloma in patients treated with pelvic radiotherapy.
METHODS:Patients...
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