Background: The vital role played by family caregivers in supporting dying cancer patients
is well recognized, but the burden and economic impact on caregivers is poorly understood. …

Purpose To provide recommendations on the follow-up and management of patients with
breast cancer who have completed primary therapy with curative intent. Methods To update the …

Background: Cancer Care Ontario's Systemic Therapy Task Force recently reviewed the
medical oncology system in the province. There has been growing concern about anecdotal …

Objectives: To investigate the relationship between accumulated health‐related problems (deficits),
which define a frailty index in older adults, and mortality in population‐based and …

… Grunfeld et al14 documented … Grunfeld E, Mant D, Yudkin P, et al: Routine follow up of
breast cancer in primary care: Randomised trial. BMJ 313:665-669, 1996 4. Loprinzi CL …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: The most widely quoted complication rates for colonoscopy are from
case series performed by expert endoscopists. Our objectives were to evaluate the rates of …

Purpose Most women with breast cancer are diagnosed at an early stage and more than 80%
will be long-term survivors. Routine follow-up marks the transition from intensive treatment …

The nature of cancer control is changing, with an increasing emphasis, fuelled by public and
political demand, on prevention, early diagnosis, and patient experience during and after …

Objective. To evaluate measures that could use existing administrative data to assess the
intensity of end-of-life cancer care. Methods. Benchmarking standards and statistical variation …

Objective: To assess the effect on time to diagnosis of recurrence and on quality of life of
transferring primary responsibility for follow up of women with breast cancer in remission from …