Examining the patient’s subjective experience in prospective clinical comparative effectiveness
research (CER) of oncology treatments or process interventions is essential for informing …

Purpose: The use of electronic patient-reported outcomes (PRO) systems is increasing in
cancer clinical care settings. This review comprehensively identifies existing PRO systems and …

Psychologists are increasingly involved in the assessment and treatment of disease-related
pain such as pain secondary to arthritis or cancer. This review is divided into four sections. In …

Purpose An American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) provisional clinical opinion (PCO)
offers timely clinical direction to ASCO's membership following publication or presentation …

Creative use of new mobile and wearable health information and sensing technologies (mHealth)
has the potential to reduce the cost of health care and improve well-being in …

The standard approach for documenting symptomatic adverse events (AEs) in cancer clinical
trials involves investigator reporting using the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Common …

Importance To integrate the patient perspective into adverse event reporting, the National
Cancer Institute developed a patient-reported outcomes version of the Common Terminology …

Objective To determine the efficacy of oral morphine in relieving the sensation of breathlessness
in patients in whom the underlying aetiology is maximally treated. Design Randomised, …

Objective To identify critical psychosocial supports and areas of conflict for families of
intensive care unit (ICU) patients during decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining …

Cancer care involves addressing patient emotion. When patients express negative emotions,
empathic opportunities emerge. When oncologists respond with a continuer statement, …