Publications by authors named "J Croke"
Findings from clinical trials have led to advancement of care for patients with gynecologic malignancies. However, restrictive inclusion of patients into trials has been widely criticized for inadequate representation of the real-world population. Ideally, patients enrolled in clinical trials should represent a broader population to enhance external validity and facilitate translation of outcomes across all relevant groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobally, surveys have identified that medical learners of all levels perceive their oncology instruction to be inadequate. To address these gaps, we systematically developed and implemented the Oncology National Course for Advocacy, Research, and Education (ONCARE), a novel, nationally organized virtual course available to all Canadian medical students and evaluated its impact on oncology competency and interest. ONCARE was designed utilizing Kern's Six-Step Model for Curriculum Development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Mentorship in the field of radiation oncology (RO) promotes career development and satisfaction. Many individuals, however, do not have access to mentorship or are unsatisfied with their mentorship experience, potentially because of insufficient gender-concordant mentorship opportunities. To address this, the Society for Women in Radiation Oncology (SWRO) created the SWRO Mentorship Program for women, gender minorities, and those with intersecting marginalized identities at all stages of training for physicians and medical physicists.
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- Multimodal AI chatbots, which can process both medical images and text, may offer improved diagnostic accuracy in clinical oncology compared to text-only chatbots, but this difference is still being evaluated.
- *The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of these chatbots using prompt engineering to generate accurate medical responses to 79 oncology-related questions.
- *Results indicated that the top-performing chatbot achieved a 72.15% accuracy rate in multiple-choice responses, while free-text responses showed varied performance among chatbots, with some multimodal options performing well.
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- Cervical cancer survivors often experience significant issues related to sexual health, with high rates of sexual dysfunction, distress, and menopausal symptoms reported by patients.
- A study involving 73 patients showed no strong correlation between self-reported sexual health outcomes and physician-assessed vaginal toxicity, indicating a disparity between patient experiences and medical assessments.
- Factors such as being non-partnered, using hormone replacement therapy, and receiving higher radiation doses to the vagina were linked to poorer sexual health, suggesting a need for targeted interventions in these areas.