Publications by authors named "Nichole A Martin"
Article Synopsis
- Social determinants of health are crucial for improving cancer care, particularly among Asian Americans with hepatocellular carcinoma, a group that is often inadequately treated.
- The study reviewed medical records to gather data on factors like housing instability, transportation issues, financial concerns, and social isolation, but found a high percentage of incomplete responses in these areas.
- The high rates of noncompletion in essential social determinants indicate a challenge in understanding these issues and highlight the need for better methods to collect this data for underserved populations.
Background: Chemotherapy-induced hiccups are understudied but can cause sleep deprivation, fatigue, pain in the chest and abdomen, poor oral intake, aspiration, and even death. As a critical next step toward investigating better palliative methods, this study reported patient-reported incidence of hiccups after oxaliplatin- or cisplatin-based chemotherapy.
Methods: The current study relied on 2 previous studies that sought to acquire consecutive direct patient report of hiccups among patients who had recently received chemotherapy with cisplatin or oxaliplatin.
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates hiccups among cancer patients using detailed medical records to capture a wide range of symptoms.
- The research focused on 320 patients, primarily men with gastrointestinal cancer, noting that hiccups often occurred daily and usually lasted less than a week, although some experienced them for years.
- Complications from hiccups affected about a third of patients, with Baclofen being the most common treatment, yet there remains a lack of effective palliative options for this issue.
Objective: This qualitative study sought to learn from patients with cancer -- in their own words -- about anxiety associated with medical testing.
Methods: Patients with cancer or a history of cancer were recruited from an oncology clinic. After oral consent, each was interviewed in person.
: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors cause cutaneous toxicity in over 90% of patients. Conceivably, healthcare providers could overlook such toxicity in African American/Black patients because of a darker complexion. This qualitative study sought to learn about such cutaneous signs and symptoms and, if present, to report them in patients' own words.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Patients who are 90+ years of age are a growing - but understudied - group at risk for cancer. Because many of these patients are undertreated (with no tissue/cytologic diagnosis), we sought to better understand how such decisions are arrived upon.
Methods: This study focused on patients between 2007 and 2017.
Purpose: This qualitative study sought to learn patients' perspectives on olaparib - including maintenance olaparib - in their own words.
Methods: Olaparib-treated patients were interviewed by phone. A semi-structured interview guide that focused on symptoms and quality of life was formulated in alignment with the study objective.
Purpose: New technology might pose problems for older patients with cancer. This study sought to understand how a trial in older patients with cancer (Alliance A171603) was successful in capturing electronic patient-reported data.
Methods: Study personnel were invited via e-mail to participate in semistructured phone interviews, which were audio-recorded and qualitatively analyzed.
Background: Metastatic cancer in nonagenarians and those older is rare and understudied. Here we explored whether these patients appear to benefit from antineoplastic therapy and whether outcomes differ based on whether or not untreated patients had a histologic/cytologic confirmation of cancer.
Methods: In this single-institution, multi-site study, we reviewed 10 years of consecutive medical records of patients 90+ years of age with a histologic/cytologic cancer diagnosis and metastatic cancer or, alternatively, a presumed metastatic cancer diagnosis.