Background: Personal health records (PHRs) and the sharing of health information through
health information exchange (HIE) have been advocated as key new components in the …

Objectives: In clinical palliative cancer care, the diversity of patient concerns over time
makes information provision a critical issue, the demands of information-seeking patients …

To meet patients' information and communication needs over time in order to improve their
recovery is particularly challenging for patients undergoing cancer surgery. The aim of the …

Differentiation of health communication strategies can address a new type of health
disparity, a communication inequity. This exploratory study collected survey data to identify …

Since 1989, Acta Oncologica has supported a range of symposiums, on sentinel node
biopsy in breast cancer patients, prostate cancer, stereotactic body radiotherapy, normal …

Abstract Purpose of Review In this review article, we will highlight ethical issues faced by
hematologists due to a growing constellation of expensive diagnostics and therapeutics in …

The observant reader may already have observed that this first issue of 2011 belongs to
volume 50 of Acta Oncologica. Intuitively, this would mean that it is time to celebrate. The …

Abstract The United States is facing challenges in cancer care delivery due to aging
population, growing demand for care, rising costs, shortage of adequately trained workforce …

This issue of Acta Oncologica includes three review articles [1–3] with commentaries from a
recent State of the Science conference organized by the multidisciplinary Swedish Research …

The quality and usefulness of patient held logbooks as a record to improve communication
between healthcare professionals providing cancer care was evaluated. Its aim was to …