Occurrence, causes, and outcome of delirium in patients with advanced cancer: a prospective study

PG Lawlor, B Gagnon, IL Mancini… - Archives of internal …, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
Context Delirium impedes communication and contributes to symptom distress in patients
with advanced cancer. There are few prospective data on the reversal of delirium in this …

From a conventional to a sustainable engineering design process: different shades of sustainability

B Gagnon, R Leduc, L Savard - Journal of Engineering Design, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The challenge of realigning the present path of development on a sustainable trajectory
concerns all sectors of society, including engineering. To move towards a sustainable practice of …

[PDF][PDF] Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of erythropoietin in non–small-cell lung cancer with disease-related anemia

…, W Roa, L Mulroy, L Rudinskas, B Gagnon… - Journal of Clinical …, 2007 - researchgate.net
Purpose Previous trials have suggested a quality-of-life (QOL) improvement for anemic
cancer patients treated with erythropoietin, but few used QOL as the primary outcome. We …

[HTML][HTML] Pandemic palliative care: beyond ventilators and saving lives

A Arya, S Buchman, B Gagnon, J Downar - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
CoV-2) pandemic will likely strain our health care system beyond capacity, and palliative care
services will be needed across many different care settings, including intensive care units, …

An eicosapentaenoic acid supplement versus megestrol acetate versus both for patients with cancer-associated wasting: a North Central Cancer Treatment Group and …

…, SR Dakhil, N MacDonald, B Gagnon… - Journal of Clinical …, 2004 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Studies suggest eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), an omega-3 fatty acid, augments
weight, appetite, and survival in cancer-associated wasting. This study determined whether an …

Clinical utility, factor analysis, and further validation of the memorial delirium assessment scale in patients with advanced cancer: assessing delirium in advanced …

PG Lawlor, C Nekolaichuk, B Gagnon, IL Mancini… - Cancer, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Delirium is a common neuropsychiatric complication in patients with advanced
cancer. The Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS) is a recently developed 10‐…

[HTML][HTML] A fluorescent probe of polyamine transport accumulates into intracellular acidic vesicles via a two-step mechanism

D Soulet, B Gagnon, S Rivest, M Audette… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
Mammalian polyamine carriers have not yet been molecularly identified. The fluoroprobe
Spd-C 2 -BODIPY faithfully reports polyamine transport and accumulates almost exclusively in …

Metformin and the incidence of prostate cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes

L Azoulay, S Dell'Aniello, B Gagnon, M Pollak… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2011 - AACR
Background: Several in vitro studies have indicated that metformin may reduce the risk of
prostate cancer; however, epidemiologic studies have been inconclusive. The objective of this …

Long-term functional benefits of selective dorsal rhizotomy for spastic cerebral palsy

RWR DuDley, M PaRolin, BR GaGnon… - Journal of …, 2013 - thejns.org
Object Large-scale natural history studies of gross motor development have shown that
children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) plateau during childhood and actually decline through …

Diagnostic criteria for cancer cachexia: reduced food intake and inflammation predict weight loss and survival in an international, multi‐cohort analysis

…, C Kubrak, B Laird, B Gagnon… - Journal of cachexia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cancer‐associated weight loss (WL) associates with increased mortality.
International consensus suggests that WL is driven by a variable combination of reduced food …