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Effective physical activity promotion to survivors of cancer is likely to be home based and to require oncologist participation by Hardcastle, Sarah, Cohen, P.

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Knowledge, attitudes, and practice of oncologists and oncology health care providers in promoting physical activity to cancer survivors: an international survey. by Hardcastle, Sarah, Kane, R., Chivers, P., Hince, D., Dean, A., Higgs, D., Cohen, P.

“…OBJECTIVE: To investigate knowledge, attitudes, and practices of oncologists towards physical activity (PA) in cancer survivors, and the association between oncologists' own PA behavior and PA promotion. …”
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Rating general practitioner consultation performance in cancer care: does the specialty of assessors matter? A simulated patient study by Jiwa, Moyez, Halkett, Georgia, Meng, Xingqiong (Rosie), Berg, Melissa

“…LAP scores by the GPs and Radiation Oncologists were compared. ResultsEight GPs participated. …”
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Patients' experience of decision-making and receiving information during radiation therapy: A qualitative study by Smith, S., Nathan, D., Taylor, J., van Gelder, E., Dixon, A., Halkett, Georgia, Milross, C., Dhillon, H.

“…Most patients perceived the decision to undergo radiation therapy as agreeing to radiation oncologists recommendations rather than making a choice, but they trusted their radiation oncologist and were happy to follow their advice. …”
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A novel case-based reasoning approach to radiotherapy dose planning by Mishra, Nishikant

“…Experiments based on a leave-one-out strategy demonstrated that for most of the patients, the dose plans generated by our approach are coherent with the dose plans prescribed by an experienced oncologist or even better. This system may play a vital role to assist the oncologist in making a better decision in less time; it incorporates the success rate of previously treated similar patients in the dose planning for a new patient and it can also be used in teaching and training processes. …”
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Doctors' approaches to decision support in counseling patients with localized prostate cancer: an Asian perspective by Cheong, Ai Theng, Lee, Ping Yein, Ng, Chirk Jenn, Lee, Yew Kong, Ong, Teng Aik, Abdullah, Khatijah Lim, Abdul Razack, Azad Hassan

“…Referral to other healthcare professionals (oncologist, radiotherapist or other urologist) for second opinion was offered to the patients. …”
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Patients' perspectives on the role of their general practitioner after receiving an advanced cancer diagnosis by Halkett, Georgia, Jiwa, Moyez, Lobb, E.

“…GP involvement in the patients' management was dependent on: time since diagnosis, GP's involvement in diagnosis and referral, doctor/patient relationship, additional chronic conditions requiring management, frequency of seeing oncologist and specialist recommendation to involve GP. …”
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Patient-doctor communication: Use of complementary and alternative medicine by adult patients with cancer by Oh, B., Butow, P., Mullan, Barbara, Clarke, S., Tattersall, M., Boyer, M., Beale, P., Vardy, J., Pavlakis, N., Larke, L.

“…Use of CAM was not discussed with the oncologist by 55% of respondents using biologically based CAM and by 80% of those using non–biologically based CAM since the diagnosis of cancer. …”
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Hybrid optimal control-swarm intelligence for optimization of selected cancer chemotherapy model / Omar Ali Mohammad Shindi by Omar Ali , Mohammad Shindi

“…This will be very helpful for the clinicians and oncologist to discover and find the optimum dose schedule of the chemotherapy that’s reduce the tumor cells and save the patients’ health at a safe level.…”
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Information needs and preferences of women as they proceed through radiotherapy for breast cancer by Halkett, Georgia, Kristjanson, Linda, Lobb, Elizabeth, Little, J., Shaw, T., Taylor, A., Spry, Nigel

“…A longitudinal survey was administered at four time points: after initial consultation with radiation oncologist, after the planning appointment, within first week of treatment and after treatment completion. …”
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An evaluation of malnutrition screening, dietitian intervention and patient knowledge of nutrition support available within an Australian oncology outpatient setting by Begley, Andrea

“…All patients reported experiencing at least one NIS and were most likely to seek advice from their Oncologist for management. The study confirmed that malnutrition screening should be completed throughout cancer treatment to enable appropriate dietetic referral of patients at risk of malnutrition. …”
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Parathyroid hormone secreting metaplastic breast carcinoma: a case report of paraneoplastic syndrome by Al-Qaraghuli, Ahmed Mohammed Saliem, Nor Faezan AR, Rohaizak Muhammad

“…Currently she’s she is under oncologist’s follow up for further management.…”
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Targeted delivery of doxorubicin-loaded cockle shell-derived CaCO3 aragonite nanoparticles on dog bearing tumour by Danmaigoro, Abubakar, Selvarajah, Gayathri Thevi, Mohd Noor, Mohd Hezmee, Mahmud, Rozi, Ahmed, Hamidu, Abu Bakar @ Zakaria, Md Zuki

“…The treatment of solid tumour remains a major challenge to oncologist, even when chemotherapy is referred as the best treatment option, with doxorubicin widely used but it application is impaired in its high concentration levels resulting tissue injury. …”
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Protocol for the RT Prepare Trial: a multiple-baseline study of radiation therapists delivering education and support to women with breast cancer who are referred for radiotherapy by Halkett, Georgia, O'Connor, Moira, Aranda, S., Jefford, M., Spry, N., Shaw, T., Moorin, Rachael, Schofield, P.

“…Measures will be collected on four occasions—after meeting with their radiation oncologist, prior to treatment planning, on the first day of treatment and after treatment completion. …”
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Ovarian tumor: Rare presentation of breast cancer metastasis by Mahno, Noor Ezmas, Idris, Mohd Faiz, Amjad, Nasseer

“…Histopathological reports came back as metastatic ovarian invasive lobular carcinoma with positive pelvic lymphadenopathy but no omentum involvement. After oncologist consultation, we planned for second line of chemotherapy, Doxitacel for 6 cycles.…”
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RT Prepare: a radiation therapist-delivered intervention reduces psychological distress in women with breast cancer referred for radiotherapy by Halkett, Georgia, O Connor, M., Jefford, M., Aranda, S., Merchant, S., Spry, N., Kane, Robert, Shaw, T., Youens, David, Moorin, Rachael, Schofield, P.

“…Data collection occurred: after meeting their radiation oncologist, prior to treatment planning, first day of treatment and after treatment completion. …”
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Vaginal bleeding in prepubertal girls-a case series in Malaysia by NS, Omar, AA, Zainuddin, A, Anizah, AI, Nurkhairulnisa, L, Sivapatham, AW, Ana Vetriana, AG, Nur Azurah

“…She required further investigation, referral to the pediatric surgeon and oncologist for treatment of a malignant yolk sac tumor. …”
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Definitive radiotherapy for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva and technical issues: a case report by Appalanaido, Gokula Kumar, I, Norhafizah, I, Shazril, AR, Nursyatina, MZ, Abdul Aziz, Mohd Zin, Mohd Hafiz, MK, Zakir, J, Norjayadi, AS, Norliza, A, Ismail, N, Khairun

“…At completion of planned radiotherapy, patient had a complete clinical response, grade 2-3 skin toxicity, grade 2 rectal toxicity, and grade 2 dysuria Vulval Squamous Cell Carcinomas are very radiosensitive tumours and the skills of the treating Radiation Oncologist, Dosimetrists, Physicist, Radiation Therapist and also nurses is of foremost importance is ensuring good clinical outcomes.…”
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Recent advances in nanotheranostics for triple negative breast cancer treatment by Thakur, Vikram, Rajaletchumy, Veloo Kutty

“…High propensity to metastasize and relapse in addition to poor prognosis and survival motivated the oncologist, nano-medical scientist to develop novel and efficient nanotherapies to solve such a big TNBC challenge. …”
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Clinical behaviour, pathological findings, survival and prognostic factors in young woman in comparison to menopausal women with epithelial ovarian malignancy by Mokhtarudin, Rusinahayati, Vallipuram, Sivanesaratnam, Pailoor, Jayalakshmi, Mohd Nordin, Noraihan

“…In the final multivariate Cox proportional hazard model analysis, the optimal tumour debulking surgery was a significant (0.25; 95% CI (0.1-0.3) p <0.01) independent prognostic factor for survival probability in both young and menopausal women Conclusion: There are limited reports in the literature comparing the outcomes of younger and menopausal women with epithelial ovarian malignancy treated by any gynaecology oncologist from a single academic institution. Our results showed that the proportion of epithelial ovarian malignancy in young women was 30% from the total identified numbers of patients treated for epithelial ovarian malignancy. …”
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