Change in survival in metastatic breast cancer with treatment advances: meta-analysis and systematic review

JL Caswell-Jin, SK Plevritis, L Tian… - JNCI cancer …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) treatment has changed substantially over time,
but we do not know whether survival post-metastasis has improved at the population level …

Challenges and opportunities in measuring cancer recurrence in the United States

JL Warren, KR Yabroff - Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Cancer recurrence and disease-free survival are key outcomes for measuring the burden of
illness, assessing the quality of cancer care, and informing decisions about increasingly …

Using natural language processing to construct a metastatic breast cancer cohort from linked cancer registry and electronic medical records data

AY Ling, AW Kurian, JL Caswell-Jin, GW Sledge Jr… - JAMIA …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Most population-based cancer databases lack information on metastatic
recurrence. Electronic medical records (EMR) and cancer registries contain complementary …

Utilization of minimally invasive surgery in endometrial cancer care: a quality and cost disparity

AN Fader, RM Weise, AK Sinno… - Obstetrics & …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To describe case mix-adjusted hospital level utilization of minimally invasive
surgery for hysterectomy in the treatment of early-stage endometrial cancer. METHODS: In …

Classifying lung cancer severity with ensemble machine learning in health care claims data

SL Bergquist, GA Brooks, NL Keating… - Machine Learning …, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
Research in oncology quality of care and health outcomes has been limited by the difficulty
of identifying cancer stage in health care claims data. Using linked cancer registry and …

A retrospective analysis of delays in the diagnosis of lung cancer and associated costs

TR Gildea, S DaCosta Byfield, DK Hogarth… - ClinicoEconomics …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Diagnosis of lung cancer at advanced stages can result in missed treatment
opportunities, worse outcomes, and higher health care costs. This study evaluated the wait …

Development and use of natural language processing for identification of distant cancer recurrence and sites of distant recurrence using unstructured electronic health …

YH Karimi, DW Blayney, AW Kurian, J Shen… - JCO Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Large-scale analysis of real-world evidence is often limited to structured data
fields that do not contain reliable information on recurrence status and disease sites. In this …

An antibody that blocks insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding to the type II IGF receptor is neither an agonist nor an inhibitor of IGF-stimulated biologic responses in …

W Kiess, JF Haskell, L Lee, LA Greenstein… - Journal of Biological …, 1987 - ASBMB
To better define the biologic function of the type II insulin-like growth factor (IGF) receptor, we
raised a blocking antiserum in a rabbit by immunizing with highly purified rat type II IGF …

Real-world patterns of endocrine therapy for metastatic hormone-receptor-positive (HR+)/human epidermal growth factor receptor-2-negative (HER2−) breast cancer …

E Swallow, J Zhang, D Thomason, RD Tan… - … medical research and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Clinical guidelines recommend that patients with HR+/HER2− metastatic breast
cancer (mBC), the most prevalent mBC subtype, receive three lines of endocrine therapy …

Use of natural language processing to assess frequency of functional status documentation for patients newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer

N Agaronnik, C Lindvall, A El-Jawahri, W He… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Use of Natural Language Processing to Assess Frequency of Functional Status Documentation
for Patients Newly Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer | Colorectal Cancer | JAMA Oncology …