Awareness, concern, and communication between physicians and patients on bone health in cancer.

Purpose: This study aims to explore physician-patient communications about bone metastases and cancer treatment-induced bone loss (CTIBL).

Methods: The study utilizes online survey of patients with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and multiple myeloma, and the physicians who treat them.

Results: Even though 69 and 48 % of patients with nonmetastatic breast and prostate cancer aware of treatment-induced bone loss, only 39 and 23 %, respectively, were concerned about bone loss.

Singular or plural? Children's knowledge of the factors that determine the appropriate form of count nouns.

Two experiments investigated the factors that govern children's use of singular and plural forms of count nouns. Experiment 1 used an elicited production task to investigate whether children use referential and/or syntactic information to determine the form of the count nouns when the two sources of information conflict (e.g.