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Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Monday, March 07, 2011

JCO series: Art of Oncology Hope and Realism: The Perfect Balance?

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Art of Oncology Hope and Realism: The Perfect Balance? Shirish M. Gadgeel JCO published online on March 7, 2011 ...
Friday, March 04, 2011

update with patient/consumer/public responses: Patients With Unrealistic Expectations - NYTimes.com

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Monday, January 24, 2011

Unrealistic optimism appears common in early cancer trials (patient version HOPE ??)

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Blogger Comment : patients call optimism also as "HOPE"
Monday, September 06, 2010

media article: When oncology becomes hope-ology

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"EVERY patient with advanced cancer hopes to be the exception rather than the rule. If one explains to a patient that only 5% to 10% a...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Giving Honest Information to Patients With Advanced Cancer Maintains Hope - Cancer Network

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Giving Honest Information to Patients With Advanced Cancer Maintains Hope - Cancer Network

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" Background : Oncologists often do not give honest prognostic and treatment-effect information to patients with advanced disease. One ...
Friday, May 14, 2010

full free access: Hope and Noncurative Chemotherapies: Which Affects the Other? Journal of Clinical Oncology

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Note : references ovarian cancer, factors involved in treatment related decision making "We still do not fully understand the concept ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

from the series The Art of Oncology: "Certain Death in Uncertain Time: Informing Hope by Quantifying a Best Case Scenario"

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Note: Stephen Gould's writings were extraordinarily popular died in 2002) "Research informs us that the majority of patients wit...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Full text - The hope of progress

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Note: not specific to ovarian/cancer
Monday, February 01, 2010

full free access: from the series - the Art of Oncology : "Pessimism Is No Poison"

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"....The fellow asked the oncologist why he was so pessimistic when talking with the patient. Why did he say things to make the patient...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

full free access: Jan 2/2010 - Targeted Therapy in Ovarian Cancer

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Review Article Targeted Therapy in Ovarian Cancer Lyndsay J. Willmott and John P. Fruehauf Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Universi...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Special Report: NCI Cancer Bulletin - Ovarian Cancer

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Special Report: NCI Cancer Bulletin - Ovarian Cancer
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Hope with More: In Their Own (Ovarian Cancer) Words

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reposted from September 11th:  Hope with More: ‘In Their Own (Ovarian Cancer) Words’© September 11th, 2009 Author: Sandi Pniaus...