Publications by authors named "Fumiko L Chino"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates gender representation in radiation oncology (RO), finding that only 30.5% of ARO faculty are women and highlighting significant gender disparities in disease site specialization.
- Women are primarily concentrated in treating breast and gynecologic cancers, with over 40% representation, while specialties like genitourinary and thoracic cancers have less than 25% female faculty.
- The findings suggest that women faculty are more likely to treat certain cancers compared to men, pointing to a need for further research on the reasons behind these gender-based specialization trends.
Purpose: Compared with conventional external-beam radiation therapy (cEBRT) for patients with breast cancer (BC) and prostate cancer (PC), shorter radiation regimens may be associated with lower treatment noncompletion rates. We assess disparities in receipt of shorter radiation regimens and treatment noncompletion for BC and PC.
Patients And Methods: The 2004-2017 National Cancer Database was queried for adjuvant cEBRT or hypofractionated EBRT (hEBRT) for nonmetastatic BC; and definitive cEBRT, moderate hypofractionation (mEBRT), or stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for localized PC.
Purpose: Both the superstructures of virtual discourse in radiation oncology and the entities occupying influential positions in the social media landscape of radiation oncology remain poorly characterized.
Methods And Materials: NodeXL Pro was used to prospectively sample all tweets with the hashtag #radonc every 8 to 10 days during the course of 1 year (December 4, 2018, to November 29, 2019). Twitter handles were grouped into conversational clusters using the Clauset-Newman-Moore community detection algorithm.
Importance: Many patients with metastatic cancer receive high-cost, low-value care near the end of life. Identifying patients with a high likelihood of receiving low-value care is an important step to improve appropriate end-of-life care.
Objective: To analyze patterns of care and interventions during terminal hospitalizations and examine whether care management is associated with sociodemographic status among adult patients with metastatic cancer at the end of life.