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Phys Med
January 2025
Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71003 Iraklion, Crete, Greece.
Purpose: To investigate the performance of a machine learning-based segmentation method for treatment planning of gastric cancer.
Materials And Methods: Eighteen patients planned to be irradiated for gastric cancer were studied. The target and the surrounding organs-at-risk (OARs) were manually delineated on CT scans.
Healthcare (Basel)
December 2024
Psychology Unit, IRCCS "Regina Elena" National Cancer Institute, Via Elio Chianesi, 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
: Psychological distress impacts 35-40% of cancer patients, significantly affecting their quality of life, treatment adherence, and relationships with healthcare professionals. Given this, there is a critical need to enhance nursing competencies to effectively monitor and address psychological distress. Previous studies have highlighted discrepancies in capabilities based on nurses' training status, emphasizing trained nurses' critical role in providing appropriate psycho-social referrals.
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January 2025
Office of Quality and Value, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.
Many patients with cancer approaching the end of life (EOL) continue to receive treatments that are unlikely to provide meaningful clinical benefit, potentially causing more harm than good. This is called overtreatment at the EOL. Overtreatment harms patients by causing side-effects, increasing health care costs, delaying important discussions about and preparation for EOL care, and occasionally accelerating death.
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January 2025
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Germany.
While MRI has become the imaging modality of choice for intracranial meningiomas, no radiologic reporting guidance exists to date that relies on a systematic collection of information relevant to the core medical disciplines involved in the management of these patients. To address this issue, a nationwide expert survey was conducted in Germany. A literature-based catalog of potential reporting elements for MRI examinations of meningioma patients was developed interdisciplinarily.
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January 2025
Saint Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Africa is currently facing unprecedented growth in its cancer burden. Training an adequate number of skilled physicians is critical to addressing this challenge. We examine African oncology faculty's professional development (PD) activities, associated barriers, enablers, satisfaction levels, and highlight the implications for improving the quality of the oncology faculty workforce in SSA.
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