Application of Artificial Intelligence in Symptom Monitoring in Adult Cancer Survivorship: A Systematic Review.

Purpose: The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care may afford new avenues for personalized and patient-centered care. This systematic review explored the role of AI in symptom monitoring for adult cancer survivors.

Methods: A comprehensive search was performed from inception to November 2023 in seven bibliographic databases and three clinical trial registries.

Supportive care 2030 movement: towards unifying ambitions for global excellence in supportive cancer care-an international Delphi study.

Background: Supportive care to ensure optimal quality of life is an essential component of cancer care and symptom control across the lifespan. Ongoing advances in cancer treatment, increasing toxicity from many novel treatment regimes, and variations in access to care and cancer outcomes across the globe and resource settings present significant challenges for supportive care delivery. To date, no overarching framework has been developed to guide supportive care development worldwide.

Survivorship Care for People Affected by Advanced or Metastatic Cancer: MASCC-ASCO Standards and Practice Recommendations.

Purpose: People with advanced or metastatic cancer and their caregivers may have different care goals and face unique challenges compared with those with early-stage disease or those nearing the end of life. These Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC)-ASCO standards and practice recommendations seek to establish consistent provision of quality survivorship care for people affected by advanced or metastatic cancer.

Methods: A MASCC-ASCO expert panel was formed.

Survivorship care for people affected by advanced or metastatic cancer: MASCC-ASCO standards and practice recommendations.

Purpose: People with advanced or metastatic cancer and their caregivers may have different care goals and face unique challenges compared to those with early-stage disease or those nearing the end-of-life. These MASCC-ASCO standards and practice recommendations seek to establish consistent provision of quality survivorship care for people affected by advanced or metastatic cancer.

Methods: An expert panel comprising MASCC and ASCO members was formed.

The efficacy, challenges, and facilitators of telemedicine in post-treatment cancer survivorship care: an overview of systematic reviews.

Background: Telemedicine services have been increasingly used to facilitate post-treatment cancer survivorship care, including improving access; monitoring health status, health behaviors, and symptom management; enhancing information exchange; and mitigating the costs of care delivery, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. To inform guidance for the use of telemedicine in the post-COVID era, the aim of this overview of systematic reviews (SRs) was to evaluate the efficacy of, and survivor engagement in, telemedicine interventions in the post-treatment survivorship phase, and to consider implementation barriers and facilitators.

Methods: PubMed, Cochrane CENTRAL, CINAHL, Embase, and Web of Science databases were searched.

Challenges adopting next-generation sequencing in community oncology practice.

Purpose Of Review: We are in an exhilarating time in which innovations exist to help reduce the impact of cancer for individuals, practitioners and society. Innovative tools in cancer genomics can optimize decision-making concerning appropriate drugs (alone or in combination) to cure or prolong life. The genomic characterization of tumours can also give direction to the development of novel drugs.

COVID-19 and supportive cancer care: key issues and opportunities.

Purpose Of Review: The disruption to people's lives, including financial impacts, morbidity and loss of life caused by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic requires a dramatic transformation of cancer care delivery, including supportive care. This paper focuses on issues of supportive care in the context of the pandemic, and the extent to which these issues will impact supportive cancer care post-COVID-19.

Recent Findings: Cancer care, including supportive care delivery, has had to be dramatically altered during the COVID-19 pandemic, including reallocation of human resources, repurposing of existing physical space, amplified use of telehealth and other remote patient monitoring technologies, changes to treatment and follow-up care patient schedules, among others.

A Preliminary Investigation of Health and Work-Environment Factors on Presenteeism in the Workplace.

Objective: This study investigates the health and work-environment factors that are associated with presenteeism.

Method: A self-report survey that measured presenteeism, 13 health conditions (eg, stress and allergies), and nine work-environment factors (eg, job strain and leadership) was completed by 229 workers.

Results: The most common health condition was stress, while the most common work-environment factor was job strain.

Reflections on the implementation of screening for distress (sixth vital sign) in Canada: key lessons learned.

Background: Accreditation bodies in the USA, the UK, and Europe have mandated that jurisdictions regularly screen patients for distress. While these requirements have been in place for some time, recent reports suggest that facilities still struggle to overcome implementation barriers. In Canada, a Screening for Distress (the sixth vital sign) Initiative was implemented in eight cancer treatment facilities in seven provinces.

Impact on Employee Productivity From Presenteeism and Absenteeism: Evidence From a Multinational Firm in Sri Lanka.

Objective: This study examines the effects of 13 psychological and physical health conditions on work productivity.

Methods: One hundred fifty-two staff at the headquarters of a Sri Lankan multinational firm completed a questionnaire asking whether they experienced 13 health conditions common in workplaces, and about their related absenteeism and presenteeism.

Results: Most respondents (85.

Effect of Current Dietary Recommendations on Weight Loss and Cardiovascular Risk Factors.

Background: Dietary recommendations emphasize increased consumption of fruit, vegetables, and whole grain cereals for prevention of chronic disease.

Objectives: This study assessed the effect of dietary advice and/or food provision on body weight and cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Methods: Healthy overweight men (n = 209) and women (n = 710), mean age 44.

Making molehills out of a mountain: experience with a new scheduling strategy to diminish workload variations in response to increased treatment demands.

Purpose: A new scheduling strategy was implemented. Before implementation, treatments and planning computed tomography (ct) imaging were both scheduled at the same time. Maximal wait times for treatment are defined by the Quebec Ministry of Health's plan of action according to treatment aim and site.

Relationships between work environment factors and presenteeism mediated by employees' health: a preliminary study.

Objective: This study investigates a research framework for presenteeism, in particular, whether work environment factors are indirectly related to presenteeism via employees' health.

Methods: A total of 336 employees, 107 from a manufacturing company in Europe and 229 from various locations across North America, completed a self-report survey, which measured the association between presenteeism (dependent variable) and several health and work environment factors (independent variables). These relationships were tested using path analysis with bootstrapping in Mplus.

Comparing alternative design options for chronic disease prevention interventions.

Background: While the randomized clinical trial is considered to provide the highest level of evidence in clinical medicine, its superiority to other study designs in the context of prevention studies is debated. The purpose of this review was (i) to gather evidence about challenges facing both randomized controlled trials and observational designs for the conduct of population-based chronic disease prevention interventions and (ii) to consider the suitability of recently proposed hybrid designs for population-based prevention intervention studies.

Methods: Rapid review methods were employed for this study.

Implementing a regional oncology information system: approach and lessons learned.

Rationale: Paper-based medical record systems are known to have major problems of inaccuracy, incomplete data, poor accessibility, and challenges to patient confidentiality. They are also an inefficient mechanism of record-sharing for interdisciplinary patient assessment and management, and represent a major problem for keeping current and monitoring quality control to facilitate improvement. To address those concerns, national, regional, and local health care authorities have increased the pressure on oncology practices to upgrade from paper-based systems to electronic health records.

Effectiveness of individual-focused interventions to prevent chronic disease.

Background: The burden of chronic disease is projected to assume crisis proportions in most parts of the world by the middle of the century, focusing attention on the need for preventive interventions. We identify and review published research on primary prevention individual-level interventions in current practice and describe and discuss the limitations of the current evidence. The report facilitates prioritizing a research agenda for potential interventions that might be investigated within cohort studies.