Randomized Controlled Trials

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...

 
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...

 

Drug Evaluation

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...

 
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...

 
Adjuvant chemotherapy. Eight years later, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1984)
 
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: Treatment of malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson), Lancet (1974)
 

Digestive System

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Survival Rate

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)...

 
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...

 

Health Care Costs

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)
 

Carmustine

Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Cytoplasm

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Cisplatin

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...

 
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...

 

Nitrosourea Compounds

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...

 

Data Collection

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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....

 

Colorado

Link

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...

 

Health Surveys

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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...

 

Colorectal Neoplasms

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Prognosis

Adjuvant chemotherapy. Eight years later, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1984)
 
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...

 
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...

 

Empyema

Physicians

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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...

 

PDF

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...

 

New Mexico

Link

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...

 

*Breast Self-Examination

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)
 

Decision Support Techniques

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...

 

Questionnaires

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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)
 

*Family Practice

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...

 

Antibiotics, Antineoplastic

Phase II studies: untreated breast cancer patients, Journal of the National Cancer Institute (1992)
 

Virus Diseases

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

*Transplantation Immunology

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...

 

Hydroxyurea

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)
 

Immunity, Natural

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...

 

Computer-Assisted Instruction

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...

 

Clinical Protocols

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....

 

Humans

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

Why don't people adopt recommended health behaviors, Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (2008)
 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

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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)
 

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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...

 

PDF

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)
 

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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)
 

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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)
 

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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....

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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....

 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 
Letter: Treatment of malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson), Lancet (1974)
 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 
Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 
Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 
Hodgkin's disease in the elderly (with F. P. Li, J. Lokich, W. C. Moloney, and S. Hellman), Lancet (1973)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 
Munchausen syndrome--further follow-up (with M. J. Lynch and M. Kasakian), The New England journal of medicine (1972)
 

Chi-Square Distribution

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...

 

Life Expectancy

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)
 

Insurance, Health

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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...

 
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...

 

Half-Life

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...

 

Anthracyclines

Phase II studies: untreated breast cancer patients, Journal of the National Cancer Institute (1992)
 

Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin

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...

 

Feasibility Studies

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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

Transplantation, Heterologous

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...

 
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...

 

Neoplasm Metastasis

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)...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

*Patient Acceptance of Health Care

Link

Why don't people adopt recommended health behaviors, Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (2008)
 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 

Pancreatic Neoplasms

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...

 

*Motivation

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...

 

Effect Modifiers (Epidemiology)

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...

 

Pneumonia, Staphylococcal

Telephone

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Carcinogens

Medicare Part B

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...

 

Biopsy

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Technology, Radiologic

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...

 

Biopsy, Needle

Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Ovarian Neoplasms

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...

 
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)
 

Diagnostic Errors

Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 

Washington

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...

 

Cyclophosphamide

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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

PDF

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,...

 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

*Thigh

Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

*Clinical Competence

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...

 

Lymph Node Excision

Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Decision Trees

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...

 

*Patient Compliance

Link

Why don't people adopt recommended health behaviors, Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (2008)
 
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...

 

Primary Health Care

Link

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...

 
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...

 

Castration

The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

Proportional Hazards Models

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)...

 

Antigens, Viral

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Risk

PDF

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...

 
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....

 

Melanoma

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...

 
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: Treatment of malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson), Lancet (1974)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Sulfur

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Demography

Link

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)...

 

Preventive Health Services

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...

 

Bone Marrow

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)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Community Health Services

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...

 

African Americans

Link

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...

 

Diarrhea

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...

 

Reproducibility of Results

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...

 

Florida

Link

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...

 

Neoplasm Staging

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...

 

Glioblastoma

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)
 

Time Factors

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...

 
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)
 
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)
 
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)
 
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...

 

PDF

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,...

 
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...

 
Letter: Chemotherapy of breast cancer, The New England journal of medicine (1976)
 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Texas

Link

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...

 

Liver Diseases

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...

 

United States

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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. 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)
 
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...

 

Drug Synergism

Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Sensitivity and Specificity

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...

 

Folic Acid Antagonists

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...

 

Physical Examination

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Isoenzymes

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Electrocardiography

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....

 

Gastrointestinal Neoplasms

Adjuvant chemotherapy. Eight years later, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1984)
 

Motivation

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...

 

Regression Analysis

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...

 
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...

 

Bleomycin

Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Placenta

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols

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)...

 
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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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...

 

Antigens, Neoplasm

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Europe

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...

 

Mother-Child Relations

Bronchiolitis, Viral

Palpation

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)
 

Anti-Bacterial Agents

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...

 

Income

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...

 

PDF

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...

 

*Reminder Systems

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...

 

*Mass Media

Link

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...

 
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)
 

Colonic Polyps

Link

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)...

 

Incidence

Breast cancer screening in older women: overview, Journal of gerontology (1992)
 
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)
 
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...

 

Carboplatin

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...

 
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...

 

Mice, Inbred C3H

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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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,...

 

Aged, 80 and over

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Screening mammography. When should it stop (with T. Byers and H. Kattlove), Cancer practice (1997)
 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

Drug Administration Schedule

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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...

 
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...

 

Adjuvants, Pharmaceutic

The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

Health Services Research

PDF

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...

 

Health Maintenance Organizations

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...

 
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...

 

Rabbits

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

*Physician's Role

Women in medical leadership, Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) (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...

 

*Aging

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...

 

Suppression, Genetic

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Insurance, Health, Reimbursement

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...

 

Drug Resistance

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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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,...

 

Cystadenocarcinoma

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)
 

*Primary Health Care

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)
 

*Education, Medical, Continuing

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...

 

PDF

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...

 

Cost-Benefit Analysis

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...

 
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)
 
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)
 

Education, Medical, Continuing

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...

 

Antigen-Antibody Complex

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Attitude to Health

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....

 
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)
 
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)
 

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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...

 

Algorithms

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...

 

Female

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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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

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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)
 

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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...

 

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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)
 

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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)
 

PDF

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...

 

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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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
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...

 
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

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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....

 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 
Munchausen syndrome--further follow-up (with M. J. Lynch and M. Kasakian), The New England journal of medicine (1972)
 

*Health Education

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...

 

Tamoxifen

The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

*Leadership

Women in medical leadership, Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) (1989)
 

Child Behavior Disorders

Goats

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

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...

 

Physician's Role

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...

 
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...

 

Imides

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...

 

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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...

 

Michigan

Link

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...

 

*Aged

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...

 
Breast cancer screening in older women: overview, Journal of gerontology (1992)
 

Vincristine

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)
 

Interviews

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...

 

PDF

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...

 

Analysis of Variance

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...

 

Animals

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...

 

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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,...

 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 
Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Lung Neoplasms

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...

 
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 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...

 

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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,...

 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Patient Simulation

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...

 

Quality of Life

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)
 

Infusions, Intravenous

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...

 

Age Factors

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)
 

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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...

 
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...

 
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....

 
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...

 
Hodgkin's disease in the elderly (with F. P. Li, J. Lokich, W. C. Moloney, and S. Hellman), Lancet (1973)
 

*Counseling

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...

 
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...

 

Immunoglobulins

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Nephrotic Syndrome

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Naphthalimides

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...

 

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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...

 

Adolescent

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)
 
Hodgkin's disease in the elderly (with F. P. Li, J. Lokich, W. C. Moloney, and S. Hellman), Lancet (1973)
 

Factor Analysis, Statistical

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...

 

Immunosuppression

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...

 

Mammography

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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...

 

Link

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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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)
 

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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...

 
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....

 
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)
 
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...

 
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)
 
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)
 

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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...

 
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)
 
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)
 

Aged

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

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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...

 

Link

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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

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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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

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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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
Screening mammography, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1991)
 
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...

 
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)
 

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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...

 
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)
 
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)
 
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....

 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Brain Neoplasms

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...

 

Retrospective Studies

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...

 

Receptors, Estrogen

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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...

 
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

*Physical Examination

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...

 
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...

 

Risk Factors

Link

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)...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 

Simian virus 40

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Hypokalemia

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...

 

Community Health Centers

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)
 

Fluorouracil

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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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....

 
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...

 
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

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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,...

 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Clinical Trials, Phase II

Phase II studies: untreated breast cancer patients, Journal of the National Cancer Institute (1992)
 

Collagen Diseases

Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 

Guinea Pigs

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Hispanic Americans

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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...

 
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)
 

Patient Acceptance of Health Care

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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Practice Guidelines

Screening mammography. When should it stop (with T. Byers and H. Kattlove), Cancer practice (1997)
 

Practice Guidelines

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...

 

*Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

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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...

 

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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....

 

Adult

Link

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...

 

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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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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)
 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 
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)
 
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)
 
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....

 
Hodgkin's disease in the elderly (with F. P. Li, J. Lokich, W. C. Moloney, and S. Hellman), Lancet (1973)
 
Munchausen syndrome--further follow-up (with M. J. Lynch and M. Kasakian), The New England journal of medicine (1972)
 

Lymphatic Metastasis

Letter: Chemotherapy of breast cancer, The New England journal of medicine (1976)
 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Melphalan

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...

 
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

Epitopes

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Child

*Antineoplastic Agents

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...

 

Doxorubicin

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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

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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,...

 

Middle Aged

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

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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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
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)
 

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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...

 
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....

 
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)
 
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 
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)
 
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...

 
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....

 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Medical Oncology

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...

 

Remission, Spontaneous

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...

 

Intervention Studies

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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 

Health Policy

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)
 

*Telephone

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Hypophysectomy

The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

Radioimmunoassay

Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Carcinoma, Basal Cell

Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Alkaline Phosphatase

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Health Promotion

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Radiotherapy, High-Energy

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)
 

Quinazolines

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...

 

Drug Hypersensitivity

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...

 

Appalachian Region

Link

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...

 

Necrosis

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...

 

Logistic Models

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...

 
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...

 

*Family

Milk, Human

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...

 

*Palpation

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...

 

Quality Control

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...

 
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)
 
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...

 

Carcinoma

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...

 
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)
 

Cross-Sectional Studies

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...

 
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...

 

*Health Services Accessibility

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...

 

Urban Population

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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...

 

Outpatients

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...

 

Mass Screening

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 
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....

 
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)
 
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...

 
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)
 
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)
 
Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 

Attitude of Health Personnel

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)
 

Health Services Accessibility

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...

 

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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...

 

Serum Albumin

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...

 

Adenoma, Islet Cell

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...

 

Injections, Intravenous

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...

 

*Physician's Practice Patterns

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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...

 

Munchausen Syndrome

Munchausen syndrome--further follow-up (with M. J. Lynch and M. Kasakian), The New England journal of medicine (1972)
 

Syndrome

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...

 

Streptozocin

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...

 

Decision Making

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...

 

Marriage

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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...

 

Multivariate Analysis

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...

 
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...

 

Massachusetts

Link

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...

 

Link

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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
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...

 

Platinum

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...

 

Cricetinae

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

*Child Guidance

Mice

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...

 

PDF

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,...

 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 

Combined Modality Therapy

Adjuvant chemotherapy. Eight years later, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1984)
 

Pedigree

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...

 
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....

 

Employee Performance Appraisal

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...

 

Program Evaluation

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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)
 

Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Odds Ratio

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...

 

PDF

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...

 

Carcinoembryonic Antigen

Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Gastrointestinal Diseases

Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 

*Physicians, Women

Women in medical leadership, Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) (1989)
 

Thiotepa

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)
 

BCG Vaccine

Letter: Treatment of malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson), Lancet (1974)
 

Glycoproteins

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

*Aminoglycosides

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...

 

Employment

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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...

 

Soft Tissue Neoplasms

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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,...

 

Genetic Screening

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...

 

Hematologic Diseases

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...

 

Neoplasm Transplantation

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...

 
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...

 

*Mass Screening

Link

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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
Breast cancer screening in older women: overview, Journal of gerontology (1992)
 
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)
 
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...

 
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)
 
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)
 

Prospective Studies

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Health Behavior

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...

 

Program Development

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...

 

Family Practice

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...

 

Neoplasms

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Heart

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....

 

North America

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...

 

Breast

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...

 

*Medicare

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...

 

Health Services Needs and Demand

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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...

 

Continental Population Groups

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...

 

Aminoglutethimide

The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

Acute Disease

Kidney Glomerulus

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Child, Hospitalized

Alpha-Globulins

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Basement Membrane

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Pilot Projects

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 
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)
 
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...

 

Research

Breast cancer screening and primary care providers (with Jane G. Zapka and H. L. Greene Jr.), Progress in clinical and biological research (1989)
 

*Mammography

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...

 
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)
 
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)
 
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...

 
Screening mammography, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1991)
 

Clinical Trials

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Male

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 

Link

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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....

 
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...

 
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...

 
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....

 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Paclitaxel

Phase II studies: untreated breast cancer patients, Journal of the National Cancer Institute (1992)
 

Intestinal Diseases

Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 

Phenylalanine

Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 

Patient Compliance

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...

 
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)
 

Mice, Nude

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...

 

Follow-Up Studies

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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...

 
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...

 
Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 
Munchausen syndrome--further follow-up (with M. J. Lynch and M. Kasakian), The New England journal of medicine (1972)
 

Trimetrexate

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...

 
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...

 

Spectrophotometry, Atomic

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...

 

*Community Health Centers

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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...

 

Fluorescent Antibody Technique

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)

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...

 

Inservice Training

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)
 

Drug Therapy, Combination

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)
 

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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)
 
Letter: Treatment of malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson), Lancet (1974)
 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Metabolic Clearance Rate

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...

 

Menopause

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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...

 

*Mediastinal Neoplasms

Hodgkin's disease in the elderly (with F. P. Li, J. Lokich, W. C. Moloney, and S. Hellman), Lancet (1973)
 

*Attitude to Health

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...

 

Costs and Cost Analysis

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...

 

*Carcinoembryonic Antigen

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Precancerous Conditions

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...

 

Diagnostic Imaging

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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...

 

Thrombocytopenia

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...

 

Adenocarcinoma

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...

 
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)
 
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....

 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Drug Evaluation, Preclinical

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Lomustine

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)
 

Education, Medical, Undergraduate

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...

 

Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide

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...

 

Counseling

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Antineoplastic Agents

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

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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,...

 
Letter: Chemotherapy of breast cancer, The New England journal of medicine (1976)
 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Breast Neoplasms

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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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

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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...

 

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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)
 
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)
 
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)
 
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...

 
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)
 
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)
 

PDF

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...

 
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)
 
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)
 
Adjuvant chemotherapy. Eight years later, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1984)
 
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)
 
Letter: Chemotherapy of breast cancer, The New England journal of medicine (1976)
 
Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
Screening mammography, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1991)
 
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)
 

Self-Examination

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)
 

*Role

Women in medical leadership, Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) (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...

 

Fetal Proteins

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Liver

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Cell Transformation, Neoplastic

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Imidazoles

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: Treatment of malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson), Lancet (1974)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

*Models, Theoretical

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...

 

*Patient Simulation

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...

 

Forecasting

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)
 

Diagnosis, Differential

Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 

Semustine

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...

 

Survival Analysis

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...

 

Sibling Relations

Health Education

Link

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...

 
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...

 

*Radiology

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)
 

Patient Education

PDF

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...

 
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)
 

Cell Membrane

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 

Altretamine

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...

 

Physicians, Family

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...

 
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....

 
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...

 

Metabolic Diseases

Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 

Triazenes

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...

 
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: Treatment of malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson), Lancet (1974)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Radiology

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)
 

Risk Assessment

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...

 

*Hodgkin Disease

Hodgkin's disease in the elderly (with F. P. Li, J. Lokich, W. C. Moloney, and S. Hellman), Lancet (1973)
 

Neoplasm Recurrence, Local

The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

Child, Preschool

American Cancer Society

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)
 

Amides

Letter: Treatment of malignant melanoma (with L. Nathanson), Lancet (1974)
 
Therapy of malignant melanoma with an imidazole carboxamide and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea (with L. Nathanson, R. Lenhard, J. Wolter, J. Colsky, R. A. Oberfield, and A. Schilling), Cancer (1972)
 

Immunosuppressive Agents

Sounding Board. The problem of breast-cancer prophylaxis, The New England journal of medicine (1975)
 

Quality Assurance, Health Care

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...

 

Nitrogen Mustard Compounds

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...

 

Liver Neoplasms

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...

 
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...

 
Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Antibodies, Neoplasm

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

*Curriculum

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...

 

Physician's Practice Patterns

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....

 

Leukopenia

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...

 

Infant

Colonic Neoplasms

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...

 
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...

 
Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study (with S. Das, L. Nathanson, A. Rule, and R. S. Schwartz), Cancer (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Clinical Competence

Link

Using interprofessional team-based learning to develop health care policy (with Elizabeth A. Rider and Valentina L. Brashers), Medical education (2008)
 
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...

 
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...

 

Immune Sera

Carcinofetal antigens (with L. Nathanson), Progress in clinical immunology (1974)
 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

New England

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...

 
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...

 
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....

 

Self Care

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)
 

Breast Self-Examination

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...

 

Isoquinolines

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...

 

PDF

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...

 

Dacarbazine

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental

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...

 
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...

 

PDF

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,...

 

Technology Assessment, Biomedical

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)
 

Educational Status

PDF

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...

 

PDF

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...

 

Complement System Proteins

Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

effects

PDF

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Kidney

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...

 
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...

 
Carcinoembryonic antigen-antibody complexes in a patient with colonic carcinoma and nephrotic syndrome (with V. Pinn, R. S. Schwartz, and L. Nathanson), The New England journal of medicine (1973)
 

Medical History Taking

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...

 

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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...

 

Models, Statistical

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...

 

Laryngitis

Stomach Diseases

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...

 

Aging

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)
 

Georgia

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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...

 

*Education, Continuing

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...

 

Socioeconomic Factors

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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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

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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...

 

Sepsis

*Women's Health

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...

 

Methotrexate

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...

 
The medical management of breast cancer, Clinical obstetrics and gynecology (1982)
 

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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,...

 
Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: review, report of a case, and chemotherapy (with Y. Dayal, S. Binder, and L. Nathanson), Cancer (1974)
 

Acetylation

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...

 

Treatment Refusal

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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...

 

*Health Behavior

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Why don't people adopt recommended health behaviors, Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (2008)
 

Group Processes

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Using interprofessional team-based learning to develop health care policy (with Elizabeth A. Rider and Valentina L. Brashers), Medical education (2008)
 

*Early Detection of Cancer

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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...

 

Pamphlets

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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...

 

*Software

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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...

 

Models, Theoretical

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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...

 

Teaching

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Using interprofessional team-based learning to develop health care policy (with Elizabeth A. Rider and Valentina L. Brashers), Medical education (2008)
 

*Health Policy

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Using interprofessional team-based learning to develop health care policy (with Elizabeth A. Rider and Valentina L. Brashers), Medical education (2008)
 

Models, Psychological

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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...

 

Women's Health

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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...

 

*Interprofessional Relations

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Using interprofessional team-based learning to develop health care policy (with Elizabeth A. Rider and Valentina L. Brashers), Medical education (2008)
 

Interviews as Topic

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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...

 

Medical Records

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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...

 

Qualitative Research

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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...

 

Link

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...

 

Patient Education as Topic

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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...

 

Link

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...

 

*Patient Education as Topic

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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...

 

Focus Groups

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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...

 

Remote Consultation

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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...

 

Prostatic Neoplasms

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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...

 

Early Detection of Cancer

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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...

 

Link

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...

 

Television

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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...

 

Internet

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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...

 

Prostate-Specific Antigen

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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...

 

Public Opinion

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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...