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Curr Oncol Rep
January 2025
Radiation Oncology Department, General Regional Hospital "F.Miulli", Acquaviva Delle Fonti, Bari, Italy.
Purpose Of Review: Male breast cancer (MBC) is a rare entity which often arises in elderly people. Aim of this review is to evaluate the principal issues related to MBC in elderly, because the therapeutic management of disease is not only related to the biological behavior of the tumor, but also to the comorbidities and frailty of older population. A scoping literature review was performed on Pubmed and Cochrane Database using the following keywords: therapeutic management/ male/ breast cancer/ elderly patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Occup Rehabil
January 2025
Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Purpose: This qualitative study investigated the needs, barriers, and facilitators that affect primary care providers' involvement in supporting patients' stay-at-work and return-to-work following injury or illness. It also aims to understand the lived experiences of primary care providers who participated in the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes training program for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ECHO OEM). By examining both the structural and experiential aspects of the program, this study seeks to provide insights into how ECHO OEM influences providers' approaches to occupational health challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Pharmacol Ther
January 2025
Data Analytics and Methods Task Force, European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Biomarkers play a pivotal role in the selection and enrollment of trial participants. Particularly, predictive biomarkers help tailor medical care to individual patients; however, also prognostic biomarkers require consideration at the design stage. At the time of initiating a clinical trial, there may be uncertainty about whether a biomarker is predictive or prognostic, and the trial design may need to account for this.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWomens Health (Lond)
January 2025
Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing, Torrens University Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Background: Population-level mammography screening for early detection of breast cancer is a secondary prevention measure well-embedded in developed countries, and the implications for women's health are widely researched. From a public health perspective, efforts have focused on why mammography screening rates remain below the 70% screening rate required for effective population-level screening. From a sociological perspective, debates centre on whether 'informed choice' regarding screening exists for all women and the overemphasis on screening benefits, at the cost of not highlighting the potential harms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Coll Physicians Surg Pak
January 2025
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Frontier Medical and Dental College, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Objective: To establish the construct validity of the Assessment Implementation Measures (AIM) tool to accurately assess faculty perspectives on implemented assessment systems, facilitating the alignment with set standards.
Study Design: Qualitative Study. Place and Duration of the Study: The study was carried out at RIPHAH International University and data were collected from participants (senior faculty members) involved in teaching and assessment of undergraduates from various medical and dental colleges in Pakistan.
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