Decision Making When Cancer Becomes Chronic: Needs Assessment for a Web-Based Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Patient Decision Aid.

Background: In cancers with a chronic phase, patients and family caregivers face difficult decisions such as whether to start a novel therapy, whether to enroll in a clinical trial, and when to stop treatment. These decisions are complex, require an understanding of uncertainty, and necessitate the consideration of patients' informed preferences. For some cancers, such as medullary thyroid carcinoma, these decisions may also involve significant out-of-pocket costs and effects on family members.

Residents entering Complex General Surgical Oncology fellowship lack confidence with pelvic MRI for rectal cancer: Results of a needs assessment survey.

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for the multidisciplinary treatment of rectal cancer. However, baseline experience of surgical residents with MRI is unknown. Therefore, a needs assessment survey was conducted to examine confidence with pelvic MRI for residents entering Complex General Surgical Oncology (CSGO) fellowships.

A personal intervention substance abuse treatment approach: Substance abuse treatment in a least restrictive residential model.

The following paper will detail demographic information about alcohol and substance abuse issues in the acquired brain injury (ABI) population. Included in such a review will be a systematic presentation of the current data on the incidence of such issues as well as a comprehensive treatment model with outcome data provided. Pre- and post-test measures of separate functional outcome areas were employed to assess the effects of the treatment package.