Publications by authors named "R L Obenchain"
Purpose: Patients with cancer experience a wide array of distress symptoms (emotional, practical, physical, and functional), which often hinders their quality of life and survival. Unfortunately, only a small proportion of these patients request assistance for these problems. This study explored the relationship between requests for supportive care assistance and distress of patients newly diagnosed with cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurgery represents the major option for treating most solid tumors. Despite continuous improvements in surgical techniques, cancer recurrence after surgical resection remains the most common cause of treatment failure. Here, we report cold atmospheric plasma (CAP)–mediated postsurgical cancer treatment, using a portable air-fed CAP (aCAP) device.
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- - The R package offers innovative methods to tackle biases and confounding factors in observational studies that compare different treatments or exposures.
- - It is mainly aimed at researchers in medicine and life sciences, but can also be applied in other areas with complex outcomes involving multiple confounding variables.
- - The package includes non-parametric bias correction techniques for survival analysis and enables personalized predictions of treatment outcomes and varying treatment effects across different patient groups.
Objective: We examined the psychometric properties of a biopsychosocial screening tool "You, Your Family and City of Hope are a Team" implemented via touchpad technology (YYFcore03) at a cancer center in newly diagnosed patients and patients on active treatment, with the primary objective to evaluate concurrent validity with screening criterion measures of depression and anxiety.
Methods: YYFcore03, Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9], and Generalized Anxiety Disorder [GAD-7] were administered to 608 patients in out-patient clinics. A subset of 158 patients responding a second time to YYFcore03 at a subsequent visit were included for assessing reliability.