Monitoring survival of cancer patients using data collected by population‐based cancer
registries is an important component of cancer control. In this setting, patient survival is often …

Background: Disclosure of cancer statistics (eg, survival or incidence rates) based on a
representative group of patients can help increase cancer survivors' understanding of their …

Importance Recent insights into the biologic characteristics and treatment of oropharyngeal
cancer may help inform improvements in prognostic modeling. A bayesian multistate model …

Background: Predictive cancer tools focus on survival; none predict severe symptoms. Aim:
To develop and validate a model that predicts the risk for having low performance status and …

Background For patients with cutaneous melanoma, having> 1 positive lymph node (LN) is
associated with worse survival. We hypothesized that for stage IIIA patients, N2a disease (2 …

PURPOSE Patients and providers often lack clinical decision tools to enable effective
shared decision making. This is especially true in the rapidly changing therapeutic …

Background: Pregnancy hypertension is a common, potentially fatal condition. New
guidance recommends 'tight'control of pregnancy hypertension over 'less-tight'control …

Malignant melanoma has been documented for over a thousand years. However, it is only in
the last 40–50 years that the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has developed a …