2012-05-25T23:18:48Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/cancer-treatment.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200109.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

This study demonstrates that the CanCORS Consortium was successful in enrolling a demographically representative sample within the CanCORS regions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200119.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

Physician co-management, representing joint participation in the planning, decision-making, and delivery of care, is often cited in association with coordination of care. Yet little is known about how physicians manage tasks and how their management style impacts patient outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100173.html Sep 1, 2011 Sep 1, 2011

Experts agree on many key issues regarding anaplastic large cell lymphoma in women with breast implants, but substantial research is needed to improve our understanding of the epidemiology, clinical aspects, and biology of this disease.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100123.html Jun 1, 2011 Jun 1, 2011

Decreased use of myeloid colony-stimulating factors in patients at lower or intermediate risk of febrile neutropenia from high-risk chemotherapy regimens could yield substantial cost savings without compromising patient outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000152.html Feb 24, 2011 Feb 24, 2011

The use of patient navigators-individuals who perform outreach, coordination, and education across language and cultural barriers-improved breast cancer quality of care in a public hospital and may help reduce disparities in quality of cancer care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110002.html Jan 3, 2011 Jan 3, 2011

Non-invasive breast cancer, or ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), is typically treated with either breast-conserving surgery—with or without follow-up radiation—or mastectomy. Long-term health outcomes depend on the treatments received and the treating surgeon.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100267.html Jan 1, 2011 Jan 1, 2011

Nurses play a key role in educating cancer patients and their caregivers on how to effectively cope with and manage cancer. African American caregivers may benefit from interventions tailored to their specific caregiving experience.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100150.html Jan 1, 2011 Jan 1, 2011

Patient education integrated with acupuncture had a sufficiently promising effect on cancel-related fatigue that a larger randomized controlled trial is warranted.

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/pubs/external_publications/EP20100011.html Mar 16, 2010 Mar 16, 2010

<p>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&mdash;especially older patients&mdash;often are not treated as aggressively with chemotherapy as research shows is necessary to improve survival.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100167.html Jan 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010

Older patients receiving chemotherapy for advanced-stage, non-small-cell lung cancer had fewer pretherapy adverse events than younger patients and were less likely to receive platinum-based regimens. But they had more adverse events during chemotherapy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100075.html Jan 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010

<p>Rising costs of cancer treatment raise questions about how to ensure that patients receive access to the best therapy that is a "good value" - both from the perspective of the patient and all who pay for health care (i.e., through taxes, insurance).</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000143.html Jan 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010

Better strategies for shared decision making between physicians and patients may be needed when there is no evidence to support benefit of a treatment or when patients have terminal illnesses that cannot be cured.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100304.html Jan 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010

<p>The authors compared the types of treatments prostate cancer patients received from county hospitals and private providers as part of a statewide public assistance program in a cohort study of 559 men enrolled in a state-funded program for low-income patients known as Improving Access, Counseling, and Treatment for Californians With Prostate Cancer (IMPACT).</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20101302.html Jan 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010

<p>The rate of continent urinary diversion after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer varies by patient and provider characteristics. Demonstration of equivalent complication rates, independent of diversion type, may decrease provider reluctance to perform continent reconstructions. The authors sought to determine whether continent reconstructions confer increased complication rates after radical cystectomy.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100050.html Jan 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010

Many depressed patients are receiving recommended psychotherapy but better tools are needed to monitor and improve the quality of usual psychotherapeutic care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090629.html Jun 16, 2009 Jun 16, 2009

<p>Decision making for treatment of localized prostate cancer is often guided by therapeutic side-effect profiles. The authors sought to assess health-related quality-of-life outcomes for patients 48 months after treatment for localized prostate cancer. Men treated for localized prostate cancer were evaluated before treatment and at 11 intervals during the 48 months after intervention. Changes in mean health-related quality-of-life scores and the probability of regaining baseline levels of health-related quality of life were compared between treatment groups.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090430.html Apr 1, 2009 Apr 1, 2009

<p>Economic evaluations of health care can be used by policy makers and other decision makers to compare the cost effectiveness of different treatment strategies and to make decisions about the allocation of scarce resources, such as dollars spent on health care. This commentary focuses on two journal articles address the cost effectiveness of docetaxel, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide (TAC) compared to 5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide (FAC) in the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer using data from a clinical trial, BCIRG 001 Both studies found that, despite the higher costs of TAC, the greater efficacy of this regimen in patients enrolled in BCIRG 001 led to a favourable cost effectiveness ratio.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090722.html Jan 1, 2009 Jan 1, 2009

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090210.html Jan 1, 2009 Jan 1, 2009

<p>The authors identified substantial disparities in continent urinary diversion which, based on yearly trends, are unlikely to improve in the near future.</p>