2013-04-19T07:34:12Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/cancer-treatment.html http://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/uch-macmillan-evaluation.html Aug 10, 2012 Aug 10, 2012

Because cancer patients often receive poorly organised and fragmented care, University College Hospital Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support have established a new cancer centre. RAND Europe is evaluating the centre's efforts and developing a sustainable quality improvement environment across the partnership.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/03/16/index1.html Mar 16, 2010 Mar 16, 2010

New results from a major initiative on the quality of cancer care in the U.S. have found that patients with a common type of colon cancer—especially older patients—often are not treated as aggressively with chemotherapy as research shows is necessary to improve survival.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/10/22.html Oct 22, 2012 Oct 22, 2012

Across the United States in 2009, overall cancer incidence was 4 percent higher among blacks than among whites. The disparity was more striking in Washington, D.C., where the overall cancer incidence among black residents was 54 percent higher than the incidence among white residents.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB406.html Feb 1, 2007 Feb 1, 2007

<p>Details how the factors that drove clinical use of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation (HDC/ABMT)-patient demand, physician enthusiasm, media reporting, litigation, and administrative mandates-converged to propel the procedure forward despite a lack of proven clinical effectiveness. A concluding section addresses the significance of the story for our health care system.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19790001.html Jan 1, 1979 Jan 1, 1979

<p>A pilot study of 103 patients of similar nodal status (13+) followed for up to 10 years was undertaken to determine whether data already in the patient's record at the time of pathologic examination and derived from the patient's history as well as from clinical, surgical and pathologic examination could supplement nodal status in predicting disease recurrence.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19980205.html Jan 1, 1998 Jan 1, 1998

<p>This report finds that most persons with depression in the United States and Ontario do not receive appropriate medication management.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19990012.html Jan 1, 1999 Jan 1, 1999

<p>The author responds to a critique of the methodology used by Gate et al. to assess the appropriateness of lymphoma treatment.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19990802.html Jan 1, 1999 Jan 1, 1999

<p>Cancer is an important disease, and health care services have the potential to improve the quality and quantity of life for cancer patients.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19990805.html Jan 1, 1999 Jan 1, 1999

<p>Cryotherapy has emerged as a promising salvage therapy option for treatment of locally recurrent prostate cancer after initial therapy.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000516.html Jan 1, 2000 Jan 1, 2000

<p>Patient age influenced care decisions and outcomes.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20001010.html Jan 1, 2000 Jan 1, 2000

<p>Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) became standard for HIV in 1996. Studies at that time showed that most people infected with HIV had initiated HAART, but that members of minority groups and poor people had lower HAART use.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20001201.html Jan 1, 2000 Jan 1, 2000

<p>High-dose chemotherapy poses considerable challenges to emesis management.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20001214.html Jan 1, 2000 Jan 1, 2000

<p>Patients undergoing surgery or radiation showed different longitudinal profiles of urinary function and bother during the first 2 years after treatment.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20011016.html Jan 1, 2001 Jan 1, 2001

<p>Quality improvement programs for depression in which mental health specialists collaborate with primary care providers can substantially increase rates of antidepressant treatment. Active follow-up by a depression nurse specialist in the QI-medications program was associated with longer-term increases in antidepressant use than in the QI model without such follow-up.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20021115.html Jan 1, 2002 Jan 1, 2002

<p>Using an existing data collection system staffed by skilled data collectors and managers should result in substantially more accurate and timely data.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030119.html Jan 1, 2003 Jan 1, 2003

<p>Men who are diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer during the follow-up after treatment for clinically localized disease report a better quality of life than those who are metastatic at the time of diagnosis, not because the primary treatment confers any benefit but because they are followed more closely over time and diagnosed with metastases earlier in the course of their disease.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030423.html Jan 1, 2003 Jan 1, 2003

<p>For this study, the researchers used criteria developed by the Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM), a part of the National Cancer Institute.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030514.html Jan 1, 2003 Jan 1, 2003

<p>This study establishes a foundation on which to build quality-of-care assessment tools to evaluate the treatment of early-stage prostate cancer.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030532.html Jan 1, 2003 Jan 1, 2003

<p>Quality of life is of great concern to patients considering treatment options for prostate cancer.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030604.html Jan 1, 2003 Jan 1, 2003

<p>Concern about additional costs for direct patient care impedes efforts to enroll patients in clinical trials.</p>