Cancer Care Facilities

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A knowledge-based approach to improving and homogenizing intensity modulated radiation therapy planning quality among treatment centers: an example application to prostate cancer planning. 
  • A multisite, community oncology-based randomized trial of a brief educational intervention to increase communication regarding complementary and alternative medicine. 
  • ACR appropriateness criteria retreatment of recurrent head and neck cancer after prior definitive radiation expert panel on radiation oncology-head and neck cancer. 
  • Accessibility and Barriers to Oncology Appointments at 40 National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers: Results of a Mystery Shopper Project. 
  • Antidiabetic therapies affect risk of pancreatic cancer. 
  • Association of Delivery System Integration and Outcomes for Major Cancer Surgery. 
  • Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC): Building a Community Focused on Sharing Ideas and Best Practices to Improve Cancer Care and Patient Outcomes. 
  • Cancer incidence and treatment utilization patterns at a regional cancer center in Tanzania from 2008-2016: Initial report of 2,772 cases. 
  • Cancer nursing: a caring commitment to the future. 
  • Characterization of a "low-risk" cohort of grade group 2 prostate cancer patients: Results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital database. 
  • Compliance With Price Transparency Rules at US National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Centers. 
  • Development of an integrated prostate cancer research information system. 
  • Differences in history of sexual behavior between patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma and patients with squamous cell carcinoma at other head and neck sites. 
  • Early Adoption of the SSO-ASTRO Consensus Guidelines on Margins for Breast-Conserving Surgery with Whole-Breast Irradiation in Stage I and II Invasive Breast Cancer: Initial Experience from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 
  • Effect of increasing experience on dosimetric and clinical outcomes in the management of malignant pleural mesothelioma with intensity-modulated radiation therapy. 
  • Effect of race and socioeconomic status on surgical margins and biochemical outcomes in an equal-access health care setting: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) database. 
  • Effect of surgeon specialization on long-term survival following colon cancer resection at an NCI-designated cancer center. 
  • Engaging Patients in Value-Based Cancer Care: A Missed Opportunity. 
  • Enrollment of patients with lung and colorectal cancers onto clinical trials. 
  • Evaluation of a cancer survivorship protocol: transitioning patients to survivors. 
  • Evaluation of an intensive strategy for follow-up and surveillance of primary breast cancer. 
  • Evolving application of minimally invasive cancer operations at a tertiary cancer center. 
  • Examining the Effect of Travel Distance to Pediatric Cancer Centers and Rurality on Survival and Treatment Experiences: A Systematic Review. 
  • Factors associated with biomedical research participation within community-based samples across 3 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers. 
  • First-year weight loss with androgen-deprivation therapy increases risks of prostate cancer progression and prostate cancer-specific mortality: results from SEARCH. 
  • Genetic services for familial cancer patients: a follow-up survey of National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers. 
  • Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Impact of a documentation intervention on health-assessment metrics on an inpatient gynecologic oncology service. 
  • Impact of a multidisciplinary thoracic oncology clinic on the timeliness of care. 
  • Impact of a randomized, controlled trial of liberal vs conservative hospital discharge criteria on energy, protein, and fluid intake in patients who received marrow transplants. 
  • Impact of cancer center accreditation on outcomes of patients undergoing resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: A SEER-Medicare analysis. 
  • Impact of prior local therapy on overall survival in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: Results from Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital. 
  • Interinstitutional variation in management decisions for treatment of 4 common types of cancer: A multi-institutional cohort study. 
  • Investment in new technology research can save future health care dollars. 
  • Long-term oncological outcomes of apical positive surgical margins at radical prostatectomy in the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital cohort. 
  • Low-Cost Intervention to Increase Influenza Vaccination Rate at a Comprehensive Cancer Center. 
  • NCCN Task Force Report. prevention and management of mucositis in cancer care. 
  • Obesity and prostate cancer-specific mortality after radical prostatectomy: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) database. 
  • Oncology Nurse Navigation: Development and Implementation of a Program at a Comprehensive Cancer Center 
  • Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board: lessons learned from developing a multicenter regional institutional review board. 
  • Optimizing the quality of breast cancer biomarker use at Duke Cancer Institute. 
  • Outdoor smoking ban at a cancer center: attitudes and smoking behavior among employees and patients. 
  • Outpatient percutaneous central venous access in cancer patients. 
  • Pancreatic cancer: future outlook, promising trials, newer systemic agents, and strategies from the Gastrointestinal Intergroup Pancreatic Cancer Task Force. 
  • Place of death for patients with cancer in the United States, 1999 through 2015: Racial, age, and geographic disparities. 
  • Positive surgical margins in radical prostatectomy patients do not predict long-term oncological outcomes: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) cohort. 
  • Postoperative prostate-specific antigen nadir improves accuracy for predicting biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy: Results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) and Duke Prostate Center databases. 
  • Predicting unilateral prostate cancer based on biopsy features: implications for focal ablative therapy--results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of postdiagnosis initiation of complementary and alternative medicine among patients at a comprehensive cancer center. 
  • Quality Measurement in Cancer Care: A Review and Endorsement of High-Impact Measures and Concepts. 
  • Quantitative imaging in oncology patients: Part 2, oncologists' opinions and expectations at major U.S. cancer centers. 
  • Radical prostatectomy and the effect of close surgical margins: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) database. 
  • Randomized trial of long-term follow-up for early-stage breast cancer: a comparison of family physician versus specialist care. 
  • Resection margin and survival in 2368 patients undergoing hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer: surgical technique or biologic surrogate? 
  • Slogans and donor pages of cancer centres: do they convey discordant messages? 
  • Survivorship care plans in research and practice. 
  • The Utility of Expert Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology: Analysis of Consultations Reviewed at 5 National Comprehensive Cancer Network Institutions. 
  • The utility of cost discussions between patients with cancer and oncologists. 
  • Using improvement science to promote evidence-based practice in a childhood cancer and hematology center. 
  • Utilization and impact of surgical technique on the performance of pelvic lymph node dissection at radical prostatectomy: Results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital database. 
  • Validity of the National Death Index to ascertain the date and cause of death in men having undergone prostatectomy for prostate cancer. 
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  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology