Publications by authors named "Laura J Hodges"
Article Synopsis
- Metastatic breast cancer spreads through specialized sites known as tumor microenvironment of metastasis (TMEM) doorways, which involve specific cell interactions that increase the risk of distant metastasis.
- A new MRI technique, TMEM Activity-MRI, effectively detects these TMEM-associated vascular openings and correlates well with TMEM doorway counts in breast cancer patients and mouse models.
- TMEM Activity-MRI shows potential as a non-invasive tool for assessing metastatic risk and monitoring treatment responses in localized breast cancer cases.
Objective: What do we mean by a 'psychological intervention' in the context of cancer care? It is critical to know what treatments are included under this term, if data from diverse treatment trials are to be summarized in order to inform clinical practice. We, therefore, aimed to determine how the term 'psychological intervention' has been defined and used to group and compare interventions in reviews of cancer care.
Methods: We conducted a review of existing reviews (a metareview).
Background: Fear of recurrence (FOR) has been increasingly recognised as an issue of significant burden for most cancer patients, and has been associated with psychological morbidity and reduced quality of life. More recently, the impact of recurrence fears has been indicated in the families of cancer patients. However, there has been a lack of prospective research.
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