Introduction Spinal metastases (SM) are a frequent complication of cancer and may lead to
pathologic vertebral compression fractures (pVCF) and/or metastatic epidural spinal cord …

Simple Summary In oncology, treatment outcomes can be competing, which means that one
treatment could benefit one outcome, like survival, and negatively influence another, like …

Importance Prostate cancer (PCa) disproportionately affects African American men, but
research evaluating the extent of racial and ethnic disparities across the PCa continuum in …

Significant progress has been made toward improving the care of older adults with cancer.
As described elsewhere in this Special Series, the evidence base in geriatric oncology has …

Importance Older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) vary in their health
outcome goals and the health care that they prefer to receive to achieve these goals …

In public health context, oncology is associated with severe negative impact on patients and
on their relatives' quality of life. Over the last decades, survival has remained at 50 …

Aims To examine hospital nurses' perception of their actual and potential contribution to
shared decision‐making about life‐prolonging treatment and their perception of the pre …

The treatment cannot be worse than the disease is an oft-cited statement representing the
important concept of tolerability; older patients often express concerns about side effects …

Background While previous studies have revealed a positive association between resilience
and quality of life in advanced cancer survivors, the mechanisms of the relationship is still …

Background There is substantial interest in the role of ginger as an adjuvant therapy for
chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). However, available evidence lacks …