An estimated 85k adolescents and young adults (AYAs) between the ages of 15 to 39 will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States this year. AYAs with advanced cancer face care gaps for psychosocia...

The growing cancer burden and suboptimal diagnostic capacity in low- and middle-income countries calls for urgent innovation in diagnostic solutions. Point-of-care technologies (POCTs) offer a transfo...

Frustrations regarding the costs and difficulties with parking at hospitals is a common concern voiced by patients, families, and healthcare providers. Transportation barriers to receiving cancer care...

PURPOSEMedical podcast integration into hematology/oncology fellowship curricula remains largely unstudied. We conducted a multicenter cluster randomized trial to evaluate the educational impact of a ...

PURPOSEFamily and friend caregivers of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) struggle with immense caregiving burden, leading to substantial quality of life (QOL) impairme...

Dr. Chino talks with Dr. Erin Roesch and patient advocate Julia Maues about pregnancy associated cancer with a focus on breast cancer, the most common cancer diagnosed during pregnancy. This discussio...

PURPOSEAs the complexity and need for cancer care services continue to grow, time to treatment initiation (TTI) has been increasing across cancer types. Presently there are no comprehensive analyses i...

Dr. Chino talks with Dr. Atif Khan and Dr. Lola Fayanju about the shift in breast cancer management from reducing locoregional recurrence and improving breast cancer mortality to deintensification, sh...

PURPOSEThe purpose ot this study was to assess the effectiveness of an educational video compared to in-person genetic counseling for cancer genetic testing candidates. Genetic cancer risk assessment ...

PURPOSETo determine the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) in generating appropriate treatment options for patients with early breast cancer on the basis of their medical records.MATERIALS AND M...

Dr. Chino discusses the past, present, and future of prior authorization in cancer care with Dr. Michael Anne Kyle, a health policy expert with a research focus on utilization management and patient b...

PURPOSETo evaluate the toxicity profile and efficacy of postoperative ultra-hypofractionated radiation therapy in elderly patients with breast cancer.MATERIALS AND METHODSThis is a nonrandomized, sing...

Dr. Chino talks with Dr. Aditi Singh and patient advocate Liz Salmi about how this essential tool for documentation could be optimized to be more patient-centered. This discussion will be based off th...

PURPOSECirculating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is a novel biomarker to monitor treatment response and predict cancer recurrence. However, the real-world performance of ctDNA monitoring is not well characterized...

Global incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is rising along with its mortality burden, and more than half of the patients require systemic therapy for advanced disease. There is an ongoing epid...

PURPOSEWe evaluated the definitions of five comorbidities (renal and hepatic impairments, anemia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia) in women with breast cancer using data from electronic health recor...

PURPOSEExtracting inclusion and exclusion criteria in a structured, automated fashion remains a challenge to developing better search functionalities or automating systematic reviews of randomized con...