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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Cancer Center"”.
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Cancer Center Regional Benchmarks for Psychosocial Care
… College of Surgeons (ACoS) Commissions on Cancer (CoC) formulated and implemented standard 3.2 for Psychosocial Distress Screening. This standard requires that all accredited cancer centers evaluate psychosocial distress and provide appropriate triage and intervention for all cancer …
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Increasing patient throughput in the MGH Cancer Center Infusion Unit
… capacity of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Infusion Unit. Currently, chair and bed utilization in the Infusion Unit is concentrated between 10am-2pm, Monday through Friday, but remains underutilized during other operating hours. This uneven use of resources has resulted in …
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Patient-Reported Outcomes Screening for Improved Patient Wellness: A Cancer Center Initiative
… second oncology visit. This project details one cancer center’s quality improvement initiative to (a) implement electronic screening of every cancer patient by their second oncology visit, (b) design processes for ongoing assessment and intervention of need(s), and (c) develop measurable and …
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Spatially varying threshold models for the automated segmentation of radiodense tissue in digitized mammograms
… been correlated to an increased risk of breast cancer. This thesis presents an automated method to quantify the amount of radiodense tissue found in a digitized mammogram. The algorithm employs a radial basis function neural network in order to segment the breast tissue region from the remainder …
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Attitudes towards a career in radiation therapy
… in six health care facilities (hospitals and a cancer center) in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex participated in a study to determine if there existed a difference in the two groups' attitude toward a career in radiation therapy. A researcher-developed Radiation Therapy Center Attitude Inventory …
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Vieques Cancer Treatment Center: Applying evidence-based design strategies
… my thesis studies the possibility of designing a cancer center for the Viequenses. This cancer center's design is geared towards creating medicinal architecture through evidence-based design by applying a series of factors like natural lighting, ventilation, performance, efficiency, and comfort, …
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Cancer Incidence In First and Second Degree Relatives of Brca1 and Brca2 Mutation Carriers
… risks for breast, ovarian, and several other cancers. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of cancers in first and second degree relatives of <em>BRCA</em> mutation carriers compared to the general population. A total of 1086 pedigrees of <em>BRCA</em> mutation carriers were …
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Colon Cancer Survivorship Experiences
… activity behaviors, in a sample of colorectal cancer survivors who are at high risk of developing a second colorectal cancer. Participants, recruited from Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, are colorectal cancer survivors from families at high or confirmed risk of …
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The Psychosocial Effects of The Li-Fraumeni Education and Early Detection (Lead) Program On Indivdiuals With Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
<p>Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a hereditary cancer syndrome that leads to an increased risk of multiple cancers. In the past five years new screening protocols have been developed that provide improved screening options for individuals with LFS. However, very little has been published on the …
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Outcomes of Genetic Testing In A Genitourinary Genetics Clinic
<p>Several known hereditary cancer syndromes confer an increased risk for genitourinary (GU)related malignancies. Various guidelines indicate when to refer patients to genetic counseling for GU-related hereditary cancer syndromes but there is limited research on the clinical picture of these …
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Outpatient Oncology Center: A Journey Realized, Dallas, Texas
… needs of the mind, body, and spirit. Existing Cancer Centers do not focus on the patients needs. This cancer center focuses on the separate and different needs of the adult and pediatric patient by providing a place for hope, journey, and creating a new lifestyle. The Outpatient Oncology Center …
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INCORPORATING EMR AND GENOMIC DATA USING NLP AND MACHINE LEARNING TO REFINE CANCER TREATMENT
… practice using free-text progress reports of cancer patients. We obtained 5,889 de-identified progress reports for 755 cancer patients from Wake Forest Baptist Health Comprehensive Cancer Center for our data analyses. An NLP system was implemented to process the free-text data and extract …
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Improving The Reporting And Tracking Of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries
… on two post-surgical units in a large urban cancer center. This initiative combined comprehensive training via a web-based module, and the implementation of an electronic pressure injury risk report that was incorporated into morning huddles and in the hand-off process. Pre and posttests …
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Automating Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning by using Hierarchical Optimization
… the treatment plans at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. We found that hierarchical optimization produced the same or better treatment plans than that produced by a planner using the Eclipse treatment planning system. Therefore, the dissertation demonstrated that hierarchical optimization …
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Identifying Pathogenic Variants In Hereditary Cancer Syndrome Genes Via Tumor Molecular Profiling
… profiling is often performed in order to direct cancer treatment options. However, because many of the genes analyzed on tumor molecular profiling overlap with genes known to be associated in the germline with hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes, tumor molecular profiling can unknowingly …
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Automated segmentation of radiodense tissue in digitized mammograms using a constrained Neyman-Pearson classifier
<p>Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related mortality among American women. Mammography screening has emerged as a reliable non-invasive technique for early detection of breast cancer. The radiographic appearance of the female breast consists of radiolucent (dark) regions and …
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Factors and Attributes Related to Training Transfer in Healthcare Professionals Participating in Quality Improvement Training
… held at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) between 2005 and 2014; and to develop insight into how these factors and attributes facilitate or impede QI training transfer. The Success Case Method (SCM) was used to identify trainees with high and low levels of training …
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NATURAL PRODUCT AND BUILDING BLOCK SYNTHESIS: CAROLACTON-INSPIRED ANALOGS, THE ANTITUMOR THERAPEUTIC FRAX-1036, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ATOMICALLY PRECISE MEMBRANES FROM SPIROLIGOMERS
… with the Chernoff group at Fox Chase Cancer Center to provide them with more material for murine testing. The second, the synthesis of macrocycles for the formation of atomically precise membranes, was conducted using spiroligomer building blocks and unnatural amino acids to furnish a …
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Cancers Associated With Brca1 and Brca2 Mutations Other Than Breast and Ovarian
… development in Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer syndrome (HBOC) through accumulation of unrepaired DNA damage. Extensive research of <em>BRCA1</em> and <em>BRCA2</em> mutations has led to well-defined breast and ovarian cancer risks in individuals with HBOC. Previous studies have reported …
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Exploring Motivational Factors to Pursue Genetic Counseling and Testing In Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients
<p>Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients face a unique set of challenges when navigating cancer treatment and survivorship. For many patient populations, motivational factors to pursue genetic counseling/testing have been described, but these motivational factors in AYA cancer patients …
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