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Oncology education in Brazilian medical schools

Brazilian Journal of Oncology, 2020
Background and Objective: Cancer is expected to be the leading cause of death in Brazil by 2030. This scenario demands that health professionals, especially physicians, should be able to implement primary prevention, early detection and cancer
Angelica Nogueira-Rodrigues, Ronniel Morais Albuquerque, Renan Orsati Clara, Ana Gelatti, Augusto Cesar de Andrade Mota, Bruno Pacheco Pereira, Daniela Dornelles Rosa, Igor Alexandre Protzner Morbeck, Maria Fátima Gaui, Maria Ignez Freitas Melro-Braghiroli, Rafael Aliosha Kaliks, Rodrigo Ramella Munhoz, Sandro Roberto de Araújo Cavalléro, Vladmir Cláudio Cordeiro-de-Lima, Clarissa Maria de Cerqueira Mathias   +14 more
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Undergraduate oncology education in Sudanese public medical schools; a national cross-sectional study

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background Cancer was the fifth leading cause of death in Sudan general hospitals in 2020, and its incidence is increasing. Medical students’ cancer education is key in cancer control.
Salma S. Alrawa, Ammar Elgadi, Esraa S. A. Alfadul, Shahd Alshikh, Nazik Hammad, Abdelhafeez Abdelhafeez   +5 more
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Second opinions in medical oncology

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background The current study aimed to further our understanding of second opinions among medical oncology patients by examining the proportion of patients who sought a second opinion about their cancer treatment, and why.
Ian Olver, Mariko Carey, Jamie Bryant, Allison Boyes, Tiffany Evans, Rob Sanson-Fisher   +5 more
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Eponyms in medical oncology

Cancer Treatment and Research Communications, 2022
Eponyms have historically been used to honor individual contributions or discoveries in the field of medicine. More recently, some eponyms have been criticized for imprecision or for being misnomers.
Priyanka Kumar, Danielle Brazel, David J. Benjamin, Elizabeth Brem   +3 more
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Integrating Radiation Oncology Into Undergraduate Medical Education

Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2021
Cancer is one of the most important public health problems. However, medical education has not advanced at the same rate when it comes to cancer education.
Mona Arbab, MD, Jordan A. Holmes, MD, MPH, Kenneth R. Olivier, MD, Emma C. Fields, MD, Kimberly S. Corbin, MD, Jenna M. Kahn, MD, Richard C. Zellars, MD, Antwione M. Haywood, PhD   +7 more
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Characteristics and outcomes of thymomas in Latin America: Results from over 10 years of experience (CLICaP‐LATimus)

Thoracic Cancer, 2021
Background Thymomas are a group of rare neoplasms of the anterior mediastinum. The objective of this study was to describe the demographics, clinical characteristics and treatment approaches in Latin America.
Claudio Martín, Diego Enrico, Luis Mas, Ana Karina Patane, Oscar Arrieta, Tannia Soria, Andrés F. Cardona, Alejandro Ruiz‐Patiño, Rossana Ruiz, Patricia Rioja, Sophia Lozano, Zyanya Lucia Zatarain‐Barrón, Feliciano Barrón, Carmen Puparelli, Florencia Tsou, Marcelo P. Corassa, Helano C. Freitas, Vladmir Cláudio Cordeiro de Lima, Leonardo Rojas, Camila Ordóñez‐Reyes, Luis Corrales, Carolina Sotelo, July Rodríguez, Luisa Ricaurte, Jenny Ávila, Pilar Archila, Rafael Rosell, Mauricio Cuello, Jordi Remon, CLICaP   +29 more
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Perceptions of Surgical and Other Medical Specialties about Medical Oncologists: A Survey among Physicians in a Filipino Tertiary Hospital

Asian Journal of Oncology, 2021
Introduction There are unverified negative perceptions about medical oncologists. Identifying how they are perceived may provide guidance on how to strengthen the positive and correct the negative impressions.
Jamila Marie J. De Veyra, Clevelinda S. Calma   +1 more
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Definitions for “palliative care”, “end-of-life” and “terminally ill” in oncology: a scoping review

Enfermería: Cuidados Humanizados, 2020
Objective: to identify and map the definitions for palliative care, end of life, and terminally ill in the oncology literature. Materials and method: scoping review guided by Joanna Brigs Institute recommendations.
Franciele Roberta Cordeiro , Stefanie Griebeler Oliveira , Juliana Zeppini Giudice , Vanessa Pellegrini Fernandes , Adriéli Timm Oliveira   +4 more
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Management of serious complications in intra‐abdominal desmoid‐type fibromatosis

Cancer Reports, 2021
Background Desmoid fibromatosis (DF) is a rare and locally infiltrative monoclonal fibroblastic proliferation arising from connective tissues, with lack of metastatic potential. About 10% of all DF cases are intra‐abdominally sited. Complications in this
Federica Bini, Marco Fiore, Salvatore Provenzano, Rossella Bertulli, Arianna Ottini, Chiara Colombo, Marco Vitellaro, Gabriella Greco, Carlo Morosi, Alessandro Gronchi, Paolo Giovanni Casali, Elena Palassini   +11 more
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Survival benefit from immunocheckpoint inhibitors in stage IV non‐small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases: A National Cancer Database propensity‐matched analysis

Cancer Medicine, 2021
Immunocheckpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have become a standard pharmacological therapy in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Because brain metastases (BMs) have historically been listed as exclusion criteria in previous clinical trials involving ICIs in ...
Shinkichi Takamori, Takefumi Komiya, Emily Powell   +2 more
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