Proactive Tobacco Treatment in a Behavioral Health Home.

Tobacco use is rarely addressed in community mental healthcare despite high patient smoking prevalence. Community mental health centers have systems in place that could be used to comprehensively address tobacco use. This study tested feasibility of, satisfaction with, and safety of proactive tobacco treatment (tobacco outreach to offer connection to tobacco cessation treatment).

An improved methodology for modeling neurobehavioral late-effects of radiotherapy in pediatric brain tumors.

Background: Technical advances in radiation oncology provide new opportunities to study neurobehavioral outcomes of radiation therapy (RT) in children treated for brain tumors.

Methods: In this study, we describe an approach to modeling late-effects using integral biologically effective dose (IBED) combined with improved measurement of critical neuropsychological functions.

Results: IBED was found to provide more differentiated information about dose distribution than prescribed dose in five subjects treated for brain tumors.