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Background
Tobacco use is associated with adverse outcomes among patients diagnosed with cancer. Socioeconomic determinants influence access and utilization of tobacco treatment; little is known about the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage (NSD) and tobacco assessment, assistance, and cessation among patients diagnosed with cancer.
Methods
A modified Cancer Patient Tobacco...
BACKGROUNDTo the authors' knowledge, there are currently no standardized measures of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure in patients diagnosed with cancer, and this gap hinders the conduct of studies examining the impact of tobacco on cancer treatment outcomes. The objective of the current study was to evaluate and refine questionnaire items proposed by an expert task force to assess tobacco...
BACKGROUNDMedia literacy programs have shown potential for reduction of adolescent tobacco use. We aimed to determine if an anti‐smoking media literacy curriculum improves students' media literacy and affects factors related to adolescent smoking.
METHODSWe recruited 1170 9th‐grade students from 64 classrooms in 3 public urban high schools. Students were randomized by classroom to a media literacy...
BACKGROUND:Neurotoxicity from adjuvant treatment with oxaliplatin has been studied in patients with colorectal carcinoma in short‐term studies, but, to the authors' knowledge, the current article is the first long‐term assessment which reports the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) investigation of whether excess neurotoxicity persists beyond 4 years.
METHODS:As part of a...
Background and ObjectivesThree year post‐surgical morbidity levels were compared between patients with negative sentinel lymph node dissection alone (SLND) and those with negative sentinel node dissection and negative axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in the NSABP B‐32 trial.
MethodsA total of 1,975 ALND and 2,008 SLND node negative breast cancer patients had shoulder range of motion and arm...
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