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Women 65 and older present a unique challenge to health professionals, particularly with respect to...
Screening is a way of detecting disease early in an asymptomatic population. For cancer screening...
PURPOSE: We undertook a prospective, randomized phase III trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy...
Measurement of drug activity as an oncolytic effect, use of the control only to monitor...
Using concepts from the Precaution Adoption Process Model, we identified behavioral factors, sociodemographic and psychosocial...
BACKGROUND: Although strong scientific evidence has shown that screening for colorectal cancer saves lives, most...
Periodic screening mammography and clinical breast examination have significantly reduced the breast cancer mortality rate...
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OBJECTIVE. A multiple component intervention in a community health center is presented, and its effect...
BACKGROUND: Despite widespread promotion of mammography screening, a distinct minority of women have remained underusers...
OBJECTIVE. To improve breast cancer screening skills, practicing non-academic primary care physicians were offered an...
The University of Massachusetts Medical School's two year preclinical curriculum is organized by organ system...
We surveyed 1,500 primary care physicians in Massachusetts regarding their current attitudes and practices, as...
In order to improve compliance with the National Cancer Institute's breast cancer screening guidelines, we...
It is unclear how objective risk factors influence the factors associated with colorectal cancer (CRC)...
OBJECTIVE: In January 1991, Medicare extended its mammography benefit to reimburse for breast cancer screening...
OBJECTIVE: To study the association of two well known risk factors for breast cancer and...
BACKGROUND: Primary care physicians are increasingly the gatekeepers to clinical preventive services including mammography utilization....
It is estimated that 44,500 American women will die of breast cancer in 1991. The...
BACKGROUND: Traditional didactic continuing education is relatively ineffective in improving physicians' clinical skills. We hypothesized...
The epidemic of breast cancer and the availability of tools to increase early detection and...
BACKGROUND: There has been limited use of stages of change models in characterizing colorectal cancer...
Tailored telephone counseling (TTC) is effective in increasing utilization of screening mammography, but has received...
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this report is to describe the characteristics of women ages 50...
This investigation extends prior research to apply decision-making constructs from the transtheoretical model (TTM) of...
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to document changes in mammography use between 1987...
Our 3 Step Primary Care Program is apparently successful. The first year program focused on...
OBJECTIVE: Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) systems used by telephone counselors (TCs) may be efficient mechanisms...
BACKGROUND: Women over age 50 continue to be underscreened for breast cancer. The purpose of...
The effectiveness of treatment with cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil was studied during the s.c. and...
PURPOSE: To determine if variability in toxicity of amonafide during phase II trials could be...
In preparation for a national Phase III study of dose and dose intensity in the...
Study was made of a kindred with a strong history of carcinoma of the colon....
A patient with watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, hypochlorhydria, and a non-beta islet cell carcinoma of the...
In 2003, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines for early detection of breast cancer...
PURPOSE: To assess survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with high-dose chemotherapy (HDC)...
The American Cancer Society (ACS) convened a workshop in March 1997 to consider new scientific...
Amonafide is a new imide derivative of naphthalic acid. The drug had demonstrated significant activity...
This research explored the construct validity of hypothesized survey items and data reduction procedures for...
Trimetrexate is a nonclassical antifol currently being tested for efficacy in cancer patients and as...
The response to cisplatin in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is limited by the renal...
Plasma and milk concentrations of doxorubicin (DOX) and cisplatin were measured after iv administration of...
There have been no consistent breast cancer screening guidelines for women 65 years of age...
The objectives of this research were to document adherence to mammography screening guidelines among women...
BACKGROUND. Efforts to detect breast cancer in its early stages are necessary to reduce breast...
OBJECTIVE: To compare breast cancer screening rates from the 1991 survey with data from 1987-88...
The status of mammography screening experience and factors related to utilization were examined in six...
Retrospective and prospective clinical trials were performed to determine the usefulness of the 6-day subrenal...
Tumor-free inbred female C3H/He mice were given weekly injections of cyclophosphamide to prevent or delay...
Feasibility of utilizing the 6-day subrenal capsule (SRC) assay to screen drugs against fresh surgical...
Changes in susceptibility to treatment with Cytoxan, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil, and Adriamycin, single or in combination,...
Twenty-two patients with previously untreated metastatic breast cancer and nineteen patients with refractory metastatic breast...
This report is the result of an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) study. Four hundred...
This prospective randomized Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) study (1071) was designed to compare a...
Cardiotoxicity manifested as myocardial ischemia is not generally recognized as a side effect of 5-fluorouracil....