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Models of Care and NCCN Guideline Adherence in Very-Low-Risk Prostate Cancer

Ayal A. Aizer, Jonathan J. Paly, Anthony L. Zietman, Paul L. Nguyen, Clair J. Beard, Sandhya K. Rao, Irving D. Kaplan, Andrzej Niemierko, Michelle S. Hirsch, Chin-Lee Wu, Aria F. Olumi, M. Dror Michaelson, Anthony V. D’Amico, and Jason A. Efstathiou

androgen deprivation therapy, or a combination of any of these therapies. Statistical Methodology Continuous baseline patient characteristics were compared with either the 2 sample t test or a nonparametric k-sample test on the equality of medians

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Efficacy Trial of An Internet-Based Intervention for Cancer-Related Female Sexual Dysfunction

Leslie R. Schover, Ying Yuan, Bryan M. Fellman, Evan Odensky, Pamela E. Lewis, and Paul Martinetti

professionals provided counseling and were supervised weekly by the first author (LRS). Counselors guided women through the Web site and discussed behavioral homework. Statistical Analyses Demographic and clinical characteristics were summarized with

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Advance Care Planning Improves Psychological Symptoms But Not Quality of Life and Preferred End-of-Life Care of Patients With Cancer

Siew Tzuh Tang, Jen-Shi Chen, Fur-Hsing Wen, Wen-Chi Chou, John Wen-Cheng Chang, Chia-Hsun Hsieh, and Chen Hsiu Chen

eAppendix 4 ). Data Collection Participants’ characteristics were assessed at baseline (before random assignment). Data on outcome measures (LST preferences, QoL, anxiety symptoms, and depressive symptoms) and time-varying covariates were collected at

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Adverse Health Outcomes in Relationship to Hypogonadism After Chemotherapy: A Multicenter Study of Testicular Cancer Survivors

Mohammad Abu Zaid, Paul C. Dinh Jr, Patrick O. Monahan, Chunkit Fung, Omar El-Charif, Darren R. Feldman, Robert J. Hamilton, David J. Vaughn, Clair J. Beard, Ryan Cook, Sandra Althouse, Shirin Ardeshir-Rouhani-Fard, Howard D. Sesso, Robert Huddart, Taisei Mushiroda, Michiaki Kubo, M. Eileen Dolan, Lawrence H. Einhorn, Sophie D. Fossa, Lois B. Travis, and for the Platinum Study Group

Platinum Study ( P =.30), and other clinical and sociodemographic characteristics ( supplemental eTable 1 , available with this article at JNCCN.org ). Data on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its risk factors in this cohort have been previously

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PSA Testing Use and Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Stage After the 2012 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Guideline Changes

Christopher J. Magnani, Kevin Li, Tina Seto, Kathryn M. McDonald, Douglas W. Blayney, James D. Brooks, and Tina Hernandez-Boussard

. Characteristics of Patients Eligible for Screening In the OptumLabs 1% sample, we identified 93,334 prepolicy and 110,067 postpolicy patients. Patient counts for the control and exposure groups were equivalent for the OptumLabs analysis because patient records

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Disparities in Electronic Screening for Cancer-Related Psychosocial Distress May Promote Systemic Barriers to Quality Oncologic Care

Thomas L. Sutton, Marina Affi Koprowski, Jeffrey A. Gold, Benjamin Liu, Alison Grossblatt-Wait, Caroline Macuiba, Andrea Lehman, Susan Hedlund, Flavio G. Rocha, Jonathan R. Brody, and Brett C. Sheppard

Clinicopathologic characteristics were tabulated and evaluated with Fischer’s exact test and Student t testing, as appropriate. Odds of being offered electronic distress screening, which required an active Portal, were analyzed via univariable and multivariable

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Factors Associated With Detection and Survival of T1 Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States: National Cancer Database Analysis

Ju Dong Yang, Michael Luu, Amit G. Singal, Mazen Noureddin, Alexander Kuo, Walid S. Ayoub, Vinay Sundaram, Honore Kotler, Irene K. Kim, Tsuyoshi Todo, Georgios Voidonikolas, Todd V. Brennan, Kambiz Kosari, Andrew S. Klein, Andrew Hendifar, Shelly C. Lu, Nicholas N. Nissen, and Jun Gong

For patients who received multiple courses of treatments, the most invasive surgical procedure for the primary site (liver transplantation > resection > ablation) was reported in the database. Statistical Analysis Baseline characteristics in patients

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Depressive Symptoms in Danish Patients With Glioma and a Cancer-Free Comparison Group

Katrine Løppenthin, Christoffer Johansen, Matilde Bille Larsen, Birgitte Hysse Forchhammer, Jannick Brennum, Karin Piil, Neil Aaronson, Birthe Krogh Rasmussen, and Pernille Bidstrup

refused to participate or for whom data were missing ( supplemental eTable 1 , available with this article at JNCCN.org ). Study Cohort Characteristics Characteristics of the study samples are presented in Table 1 . Men represented 60% of the

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Efficacy and Toxicity Analysis of Capecitabine and Temozolomide in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms

Taymeyah Al-Toubah, Eleonora Pelle, Tiffany Valone, Mintallah Haider, and Jonathan R. Strosberg

correlations and chi-square analyses. Results Patient Characteristics Supplemental eTable 1 presents patient demographics (available with this article at JNCCN.org ), and Table 1 presents tumor characteristics. A total of 462 patients met

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Impact of Surgical Resection on Survival Outcomes After Chemoradiotherapy in Anal Adenocarcinoma

Richard Li, Ashwin Shinde, Marwan Fakih, Stephen Sentovich, Kurt Melstrom, Rebecca Nelson, Scott Glaser, Yi-Jen Chen, Karyn Goodman, and Arya Amini

in the final matched cohort. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS Statistics, version 23 (IBM Corp.). Results Patient Cohort Characteristics A total of 3,729 patients with a median follow-up of 41.1 months who met the inclusion criteria