Articles
Media messages about cancer: what do people understand (with Kathleen M. Mazor, Josephine Calvi, Rebecca Cowan, Paul K. J. Han, Sarah M. Greene, Laura Saccoccio, Erica Cove, Douglas W. Roblin, and Andrew Williams), Journal of health communication (2010)
Health messages on television and other mass media have the potential to significantly influence the...
Helping men make an informed decision about prostate cancer screening: A pilot study of telephone counseling (with Roger S. Luckmann, Milagros C. Rosal, Mary Jo White, Nancy R. LaPelle, Melissa Partin, Caroline Cranos, Katherine Leung, and Christine M. Foley), Patient education and counseling (2010)
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate a computer-assisted telephone counseling (CATC) decision aid for men considering a prostate specific...
Moving mammogram-reluctant women to screening: a pilot study (with Roger S. Luckmann, Mary Jo White, Milagros C. Rosal, Nancy R. LaPelle, and Caroline Cranos), Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2009)
BACKGROUND: Effective interventions are needed for women long overdue for screening mammography.
PURPOSE: The purpose...
Why don't people adopt recommended health behaviors, Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (2008)
Staging mammography nonadherent women: a qualitative study (with Nancy R. LaPelle, Roger S. Luckmann, Milagros C. Rosal, Mary Jo White, and Jennifer Rider Stark), Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (2008)
BACKGROUND: Few studies have related stages of mammography screening nonadherence with the rationale used by...
Using interprofessional team-based learning to develop health care policy (with Elizabeth A. Rider and Valentina L. Brashers), Medical education (2008)
Using tailored telephone counseling to accelerate the adoption of colorectal cancer screening (with Roger S. Luckmann, Anne M. Stoddard, Mary Jo White, Jennifer Rider Stark, Jill S. Avrunin, Milagros C. Rosal, and Lynn Clemow), Cancer detection and prevention (2007)
BACKGROUND: Few interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening have used a stage of change model...
CDC-funded intervention research aimed at promoting colorectal cancer screening in communities (with Steven S. Coughlin, Maria E. Fernandez, Karen Glanz, Judith W. Lee, Selina A. Smith, Leonardo Stroud, Irene Tessaro, John M. Westfall, Joel L. Weissfeld, and Daniel S. Blumenthal), Cancer (2006)
BACKGROUND: Although strong scientific evidence has shown that screening for colorectal cancer saves lives, most...
Factors associated with colorectal cancer risk perception: the role of polyps and family history (with Jennifer Rider Stark, Elizabeth R. Bertone-Johnson, and Anne M. Stoddard), Health education research (2006)
It is unclear how objective risk factors influence the factors associated with colorectal cancer (CRC)...
Applying a stage model of behavior change to colon cancer screening (with Roger Luckmann, Anne M. Stoddard, Jill S. Avrunin, Mary Jo White, Jennifer Rider Stark, Lynn Clemow, and Milagros C. Rosal), Preventive medicine (2005)
BACKGROUND: There has been limited use of stages of change models in characterizing colorectal cancer...
Implementing a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) system to increase colorectal cancer screening: a process evaluation (with Mary Jo White, Jennifer Rider Stark, Roger Luckmann, Milagros C. Rosal, and Lynn Clemow), Patient education and counseling (2005)
OBJECTIVE: Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) systems used by telephone counselors (TCs) may be efficient mechanisms...
A randomized trial of telephone counseling to promote screening mammography in two HMOs (with Roger Luckmann, Judith A. Savageau, Lynn Clemow, and Anne M. Stoddard), Cancer detection and prevention (2003)
Tailored telephone counseling (TTC) is effective in increasing utilization of screening mammography, but has received...
American Cancer Society guidelines for breast cancer screening: update 2003 (with Robert A. Smith, Debbie Saslow, Kimberly Andrews Sawyer, Wylie Burke, W. Phil Evans 3rd, Roger S. Foster Jr., Edward Hendrick, Harmon J. Eyre, and Steven Sener), CA: a cancer journal for clinicians (2003)
In 2003, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines for early detection of breast cancer...
High-dose versus standard chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer: comparison of Cancer and Leukemia Group B trials with data from the Autologous Blood and Marrow Transplant Registry (with Donald A. Berry, Gloria Broadwater, John P. Klein, Karen Antman, Joseph Aisner, Jacob Bitran, Cesar O. Freytes, Edward Stadtmauer, Robert Peter Gale, I. Craig Henderson, Hillard M. Lazarus, Philip L. McCarthy Jr., Larry Norton, Howard Parnes, Andrew Pecora, Michael C. Perry, Philip Rowlings, Gary Spitzer, and Mary M. Horowitz), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2002)
PURPOSE: To assess survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with high-dose chemotherapy (HDC)...
Effectiveness of telephone counseling for mammography: results from five randomized trials (with Anne M. Stoddard, Sarah A. Fox, Dorothy S. Lane, M. Robyn Andersen, Nicole Urban, Isaac Lipkus, and Barbara K. Rimer), Preventive medicine (2001)
BACKGROUND: Women over age 50 continue to be underscreened for breast cancer. The purpose of...
Underutilizers of mammography screening today: characteristics of women planning, undecided about, and not planning a mammogram (with Lynn Clemow, W. P. Haddad, Roger Luckmann, Mary Jo White, D. Klaus, and Anne M. Stoddard), Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2000)
Using concepts from the Precaution Adoption Process Model, we identified behavioral factors, sociodemographic and psychosocial...
Promoting mammography: results of a randomized trial of telephone counseling and a medical practice intervention (with Anne M. Stoddard, Roger Luckmann, Mary Jo White, Jill S. Avrunin, and Lynn Clemow), American journal of preventive medicine (2000)
BACKGROUND: Despite widespread promotion of mammography screening, a distinct minority of women have remained underusers...
The effectiveness of using standardized patients to improve community physician skills in mammography counseling and clinical breast exam (with Roger Luckmann, Mark E. Quirk, Lynn Clemow, Mary Jo White, and Anne M. Stoddard), Preventive medicine (1999)
BACKGROUND: Traditional didactic continuing education is relatively ineffective in improving physicians' clinical skills. We hypothesized...
Safety and efficacy of using a single agent or a phase II agent before instituting standard combination chemotherapy in previously untreated metastatic breast cancer patients: report of a randomized study--Cancer and Leukemia Group B 8642 (with R. B. Weiss, I. C. Henderson, L. Norton, D. A. Berry, C. Cirrincione, E. Winer, W. C. Wood, E. Frei 3rd, O. R. McIntyre, and R. L. Schilsky), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (1999)
PURPOSE: We undertook a prospective, randomized phase III trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy...
Underusers of mammogram screening: stage of adoption in five U.S. subpopulations. The NCI Breast Cancer Screening Consortium (with Anne M. Stoddard, Barbara K. Rimer, Dorothy S. Lane, Sarah A. Fox, Isaac Lipkus, Roger Luckmann, Jill S. Avrunin, S. Sprachman, and Nicole Urban), Preventive medicine (1998)
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this report is to describe the characteristics of women ages 50...
The effect of Medicare reimbursement for screening mammography on utilization and payment. National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Screening Consortium (with N. Breen, E. J. Feuer, S. Depuy, and Jane G. Zapka), Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) (1997)
OBJECTIVE: In January 1991, Medicare extended its mammography benefit to reimburse for breast cancer screening...
Confirmatory analysis of opinions regarding the pros and cons of mammography (with W. Rakowski, M. Robyn Andersen, Anne M. Stoddard, Nicole Urban, Barbara K. Rimer, Dorothy S. Lane, and Sarah A. Fox), Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (1997)
This investigation extends prior research to apply decision-making constructs from the transtheoretical model (TTM) of...
American Cancer Society guidelines for the early detection of breast cancer: update 1997 (with A. M. Leitch, G. D. Dodd, M. Linver, P. Pressman, L. McGinnis, and R. A. Smith), CA: a cancer journal for clinicians (1997)
The American Cancer Society (ACS) convened a workshop in March 1997 to consider new scientific...
Breast cancer screening: early recognition (with Kathryn L. Edmiston), Comprehensive therapy (1997)
The epidemic of breast cancer and the availability of tools to increase early detection and...
Screening mammography. When should it stop (with T. Byers and H. Kattlove), Cancer practice (1997)
Amonafide: An active agent in the treatment of previously untreated advanced breast cancer--a cancer and leukemia group B study (CALGB 8642) (with D Berry, I. C. Henderson, M. J. Ratain, K Wu, C Shapiro, D Duggan, J Kalra, I Berkowitz, and A. P. Lyss), Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (1995)
Amonafide is a new imide derivative of naphthalic acid. The drug had demonstrated significant activity...
Population pharmacodynamic study of amonafide: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study (with M. J. Ratain, G. Rosner, S. L. Allen, D. A. Van Echo, I. C. Henderson, and R. L. Schilsky), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (1995)
PURPOSE: To determine if variability in toxicity of amonafide during phase II trials could be...
Can practicing physicians improve their counseling and physical examination skills in breast cancer screening? A feasibility study (with H. L. Greene Jr., D. McManus, N. E. Hoople, and R. S. Barth), Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (1995)
OBJECTIVE. To improve breast cancer screening skills, practicing non-academic primary care physicians were offered an...
Issues in breast cancer screening in older women, Cancer (1994)
Screening is a way of detecting disease early in an asymptomatic population. For cancer screening...
The extent of breast cancer screening in older women, Cancer (1994)
Women 65 and older present a unique challenge to health professionals, particularly with respect to...
Effect of a community health center intervention on breast cancer screening among Hispanic American women (with Jane G. Zapka, Donald R. Harris, David W. Hosmer, Edith Mas, and Robin S. Barth), Health services research (1993)
OBJECTIVE. A multiple component intervention in a community health center is presented, and its effect...
Cancer prevention practices and continuing education needs of primary care physicians (with N. E. Hoople, Victoria P. Gaw, and Anne M. Stoddard), American journal of preventive medicine (1993)
We surveyed 1,500 primary care physicians in Massachusetts regarding their current attitudes and practices, as...
Impact of a breast cancer screening community intervention (with Jane G. Zapka, Donald R. Harris, David W. Hosmer, Anne M. Stoddard, Robin S. Barth, and Victoria P. Gaw), Preventive medicine (1993)
BACKGROUND. Efforts to detect breast cancer in its early stages are necessary to reduce breast...
Phase II studies: untreated breast cancer patients, Journal of the National Cancer Institute (1992)
Breast cancer screening among women from 65 to 74 years of age in 1987-88 and 1991. NCI Breast Cancer Screening Consortium (with E. A. Coleman and E. J. Feuer), Annals of internal medicine (1992)
OBJECTIVE: To compare breast cancer screening rates from the 1991 survey with data from 1987-88...
Breast cancer screening in older women: overview, Journal of gerontology (1992)
Impact of a physician intervention program to increase breast cancer screening (with Jane G. Zapka, Donald R. Harris, David W. Hosmer, Robin S. Barth, Victoria P. Gaw, Harry L. Greene, and Anne M. Stoddard), Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers and prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology (1992)
In order to improve compliance with the National Cancer Institute's breast cancer screening guidelines, we...
Supporting statements and rationale (with G. J. Annas, M. L. Brown, C. K. Cassel, V. Champion, H. J. Cohen, P. S. Frame, L. Glasse, V. Mor, and S. G. Pauker), Journal of gerontology (1992)
Changes in mammography use: economic, need, and service factors (with Jane G. Zapka, David W. Hosmer, Donald R. Harris, and Anne M. Stoddard), American journal of public health (1992)
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to document changes in mammography use between 1987...
The risk factors of age and family history and their relationship to screening mammography utilization (with Anne M. Stoddard, Victoria P. Gaw, and Jane G. Zapka), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1992)
OBJECTIVE: To study the association of two well known risk factors for breast cancer and...
Breast cancer screening in older women. Synopsis of a forum, Cancer (1992)
There have been no consistent breast cancer screening guidelines for women 65 years of age...
Guidelines for breast cancer screening (with S. Shapiro, C. R. Smart, D. E. Henson, A. I. Holleb, R. V. Hutter, B. Krammer, H. D. Kushner, R. McLelland, and M. Moskowitz), Cancer (1992)
Physician compliance with mammography guidelines: barriers and enhancers (with Anne M. Stoddard, Jane G. Zapka, Victoria P. Gaw, and R. S. Barth), The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice / American Board of Family Practice (1992)
BACKGROUND: Primary care physicians are increasingly the gatekeepers to clinical preventive services including mammography utilization....
Clinical breast examination, breast self-examination: what is the evidence for utility in screening for breast cancer, Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health (1992)
Emphasizing screening activities in a community health center: a case study of a breast cancer screening project (with Jane G. Zapka, L. Chasan, R. S. Barth, and E. Mas), The Journal of ambulatory care management (1991)
Feasibility of universal screening mammography. Lessons from a community intervention (with C. J. D'Orsi, H. L. Greene Jr., Victoria P. Gaw, A. Karellas, and Jane G. Zapka), Archives of internal medicine (1991)
It is estimated that 44,500 American women will die of breast cancer in 1991. The...
Validity and reliability of psychosocial factors related to breast cancer screening (with Jane G. Zapka, D. R. Harris, and Anne M. Stoddard), Evaluation and the health professions (1991)
This research explored the construct validity of hypothesized survey items and data reduction procedures for...
Interval adherence to mammography screening guidelines (with Jane G. Zapka, Anne M. Stoddard, and L. Maul), Medical care (1991)
The objectives of this research were to document adherence to mammography screening guidelines among women...
A program to improve mammography skills of practicing radiologic technologists (with Victoria P. Gaw, S. M. Bush, C. J. D'Orsi, A. Karellas, M. Dowd, and Jane G. Zapka), QRB. Quality review bulletin (1991)
Periodic screening mammography and clinical breast examination have significantly reduced the breast cancer mortality rate...
Screening mammography, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1991)
Trimetrexate in untreated and previously treated patients with metastatic breast cancer: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study (with N. A. Dawson, A. H. Korzun, G. H. Clamon, M. Pollak, N. J. Vogelzang, R. W. Carey, and L. Norton), Medical and pediatric oncology (1991)
Twenty-two patients with previously untreated metastatic breast cancer and nineteen patients with refractory metastatic breast...
Hypersensitivity reactions to trimetrexate (with J. L. Grem, S. A. King, and T. D. Brown), Investigational new drugs (1990)
Trimetrexate is a nonclassical antifol currently being tested for efficacy in cancer patients and as...
A feasibility study of intensive CAF as outpatient adjuvant therapy for stage II breast cancer in a cooperative group: CALGB 8443 (with Daniel R. Budman, Ann Hughes Korzun, Joseph Aisner, Jerry Younger, Richard Silver, Mary Alice Rice, and William Wood), Cancer investigation (1990)
In preparation for a national Phase III study of dose and dose intensity in the...
Breast cancer screening: perceptions and experience of primary care physicians, radiologists and women (with Jane G. Zapka, Anne M. Stoddard, and H. L. Green Jr.), Progress in clinical and biological research (1990)
Cisplatin-carboplatin therapy in extensive non-small cell lung cancer: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study (with H. Kreisman, M. Goutsou, C. Modeas, S. L. Graziano, and M. R. Green), European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) (1990)
The response to cisplatin in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is limited by the renal...
Effects of a news event on breast cancer screening survey responses (with Anne M. Stoddard, Jane G. Zapka, and S. Schoenfeld), Progress in clinical and biological research (1990)
Breast cancer screening by mammography: utilization and associated factors (with Jane G. Zapka, Anne M. Stoddard, and H. L. Greene Jr.), American journal of public health (1989)
The status of mammography screening experience and factors related to utilization were examined in six...
Women in medical leadership, Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) (1989)
Breast cancer screening and primary care providers (with Jane G. Zapka and H. L. Greene Jr.), Progress in clinical and biological research (1989)
Breast cancer screening for primary care physicians (with H. L. Greene Jr., Jane G. Zapka, R. S. Barth, C. J. D'Orsi, and M. D. Wertheimer), Progress in clinical and biological research (1989)
Our 3 Step Primary Care Program is apparently successful. The first year program focused on...
Preliminary report of an intervention to improve mammography skills of radiologists (with C. J. D'Orsi, A. Karellas, and Victoria P. Gaw), Progress in clinical and biological research (1989)
5-Fluorouracil-associated cardiotoxicity (with N. J. Freeman), Cancer (1988)
Cardiotoxicity manifested as myocardial ischemia is not generally recognized as a side effect of 5-fluorouracil....
Design, implementation, and evaluation of a longitudinal cancer curriculum (with Victoria P. Gaw), Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (1987)
The University of Massachusetts Medical School's two year preclinical curriculum is organized by organ system...
Increasing the effort toward breast cancer detection (with M. D. Wertheimer, T. F. Dodson, C. J. D'Orsi, H. Pastides, and Jane G. Zapka), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1986)
Doxorubicin and cisplatin excretion into human milk (with P. C. Egan, P. Dodion, M. J. Egorin, and N. R. Bachur), Cancer treatment reports (1985)
Plasma and milk concentrations of doxorubicin (DOX) and cisplatin were measured after iv administration of...
Adjuvant chemotherapy. Eight years later, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1984)
Predictive testing with the subrenal capsule assay (with A. E. Bogden, W. Griffin, S. D. Reich, and W. R. Cobb), Cancer treatment reviews (1984)
Measurement of drug activity as an oncolytic effect, use of the control only to monitor...
Effects on metastases of drug therapy during developing and established tumor immunity (with J. Vaage), International journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer (1983)
The effectiveness of treatment with cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil was studied during the s.c. and...
Initial clinical trials of the subrenal capsule assay as a predictor of tumor response to chemotherapy (with T. W. Griffin, A. E. Bogden, S. D. Reich, D. Antonelli, R. E. Hunter, A. Ward, D. T. Yu, and H. L. Greene Jr.), Cancer (1983)
Retrospective and prospective clinical trials were performed to determine the usefulness of the 6-day subrenal...
Long-term cyclophosphamide treatments against primary mammary tumors in C3H/He mice (with J. Vaage), Journal of the National Cancer Institute (1983)
Tumor-free inbred female C3H/He mice were given weekly injections of cyclophosphamide to prevent or delay...
Chemotherapy responsiveness of human breast tumors in the 6-day subrenal capsule assay: an update (with A. E. Bogden, S. D. Reich, T. W. Griffin, and W. R. Cobb), Breast cancer research and treatment (1983)
Feasibility of utilizing the 6-day subrenal capsule (SRC) assay to screen drugs against fresh surgical...
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
Diagnostic imperatives in internal medicine: the timely detection of treatable disease. Cancer, The Journal of the Maine Medical Association (1980)
Effects of combination drug therapy on the subcutaneous and pulmonary growth of a slow and a fast-growing C3H/He mammary carcinoma (with J. Vaage), Cancer research (1979)
Changes in susceptibility to treatment with Cytoxan, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil, and Adriamycin, single or in combination,...
Radiation plus adjuvant CCNU (1-[2-chloroethyl]-3-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea) vs CCNU, hpydroxyurea and vincristine in the treatment of malignant glimoa (with M. Buechler, J. Munzenreider, B. Emami, B. Mukherji, W. Shucart, M. Scott, L. Nathanson, R. Rudders, B. Stein, K. Post, and A. Piro), International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (1979)
Results with methyl-CCNU and DTIC in metastatic melanoma (with L. Nathanson, D. Schoenfeld, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, W. Regelson, T. Cunningham, and N. Sedransk), Cancer (1977)
This report is the result of an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) study. Four hundred...
Surgery, chemotherapy and supervoltage radiotherapy for carcinoma of the ovary (with W. K. Tak, D. J. Marchant, J. E. Munzenrider, G. W. Mitchel Jr., L. Nathanson, and B. Emami), International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (1977)
Streptozocin-treated Verner-Morrison Syndrome: plasma vasoactive intestinal peptide and tumor responses (with R. F. Gagel, R. A. DeLellis, R. A. Norton, S. R. Bloom, H. H. Miller, A. Ucci, and L. Nathanson), Archives of internal medicine (1976)
A patient with watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, hypochlorhydria, and a non-beta islet cell carcinoma of the...
Results of a randomized study comparing DTIC with TIC mustard in malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson, W. G. Costello, J. Wolter, S. F. Brunk, J. Colsky, T. Hall, R. A. Oberfield, and W. Regelson), Cancer (1976)
This prospective randomized Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) study (1071) was designed to compare a...
Letter: Chemotherapy of breast cancer, The New England journal of medicine (1976)
Familial colon cancer (with M. S. Miller, F. P. Li, L. Stolbach, R. Stone, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1976)
Study was made of a kindred with a strong history of carcinoma of the colon....