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Cameron James Oswalt

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Medical Oncology
Medicine, Box 3099, Durham, NC 27710
10 Duke Medicine Circle, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications


Timing of Palliative Care Consultation Impacts End of Life Care Outcomes in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · October 2024 CONTEXT: Early specialist palliative care (PC) involvement in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) is associated with improved quality of life, less aggressive end of life (EoL) care, and longer survival. As treatment paradigms for NSCLC have evo ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of new and emerging agents on outcomes for febrile neutropenia: addressing clinical gaps.

Journal Article Curr Opin Oncol · July 1, 2023 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: While chemotherapy treatment options for patients with solid and hematologic malignancies have dramatically improved over recent years, chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN) and febrile neutropenia (FN) remain major barriers to deliveri ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations between body mass index, weight loss and overall survival in patients with advanced lung cancer.

Journal Article J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle · December 2022 BACKGROUND: Weight loss (WL) has been associated with shorter survival in patients with advanced cancer, while obesity has been associated with longer survival. Integrating body mass index (BMI) and WL provides a powerful prognostic tool but has not been w ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Identification of a Germline Pyrin Variant in a Metastatic Melanoma Patient With Multiple Spontaneous Regressions and Immune-related Adverse Events.

Journal Article J Immunother · July 2022 The mechanisms underlying tumor immunosurveillance and their association with the immune-related adverse events (irAEs) associated with checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapies remain poorly understood. We describe a metastatic melanoma patient exhibiting mult ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Patient Advocacy During the Pandemic.

Journal Article Acad Med · August 1, 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Heart rate is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in individuals with type 2 diabetes: The diabetes heart study.

Journal Article World J Diabetes · January 15, 2018 AIM: To assess the association of resting heart rate with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in the Diabetes Heart Study (DHS). METHODS: Out of a total of 1443 participants recruited into the DHS, 1315 participants with type 2 diabetes wh ... Full text Link to item Cite