Importance Differences in utilization and costs of end-of-life care among developed
countries are of considerable policy interest. Objective To compare site of death, health care …

The NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer address staging and risk assessment after a
prostate cancer diagnosis and include management options for localized, regional, and …

Background: Recent clinical trials have questioned the necessity of breast radiation therapy
for older women with early breast cancer. However, the effectiveness of radiation therapy for …

Methods| The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database
links patient data collected by SEER cancer registries to longitudinal Medicare claims. 4 We …

Context Despite increasing awareness about the potential impact of financial conflicts of interest
on biomedical research, no comprehensive synthesis of the body of evidence relating to …

Purpose: To present a retrospective review of treatment outcomes for recurrent head and
neck (HN) cancer patients treated with re-irradiation (re-RT) at a single medical center. …

… Chen RC Justin E. Bekelman and Neha Vapiwala, University of Pennsylvania Perelman
School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; R. Bryan Rumble, American Society of Clinical Oncology, …

Importance Based on randomized evidence, expert guidelines in 2011 endorsed shorter,
hypofractionated whole breast irradiation (WBI) for selected patients with early-stage breast …

Purpose Guidelines are limited for genetic testing for prostate cancer (PCA). The goal of this
conference was to develop an expert consensus-driven working framework for …

Importance In 5 published randomized clinical trials, dose-escalated external-beam radiation
therapy (EBRT) for prostate cancer resulted in improved biochemical and local control. …