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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"early stage breast cancer"”.
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Evaluation of Decision Support Aids for Early Stage Breast Cancer Treatment among Rural Women
While more than two decades ago breast conservation therapy (BCT) was shown to be equivalent to mastectomy in terms of survival, its acceptance has not been proportional to the number of candidates eligible for BCT, especially in rural areas. Decision support aids can be utilized to streamline …
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Choosing Mastectomy: A Qualitative Exploration of the Increasing Mastectomy Rates in Women with Early-stage Breast Cancer
… contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) for early-stage breast cancer (ESBC) have been increasing. Numerous factors for this rise have been suggested including the surgeon's preference, the patient's choice and the external environment. Objectives: A grounded theory study explored women's …
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The Impact of Mood Disorders on Cognitive Function in Post-menopausal Women Undergoing Treatment for Early-stage Breast Cancer
… Many post-menopausal women who are treated for early-stage breast cancer report experiencing cognitive difficulties following adjuvant chemotherapy. However, the generalizability of the results of a number of studies that have attempted to document the association between adjuvant chemotherapy …
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The phenomenology of coping with a diagnosis of early stage breast cancer: the influence of intrapersonal and social context variables
… associated with adjustment to a diagnosis of breast cancer, contradictory or limited research evidence exists in certain areas. In particular, questions arise concerning the efficacy of coping reactions such as acceptance and denial/avoidance behaviours. Using as a conceptual framework the …
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Age, time since diagnosis, communion, and unmitigated communion as predictors of relationship satisfaction and psychological distress in women with early stage breast cancer
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Sleep/wake patterns and key predictors for sleep impairment in patient-caregiver dyads:: a longitudinal observational study among women with early stage breast cancer and their informal caregivers during chemotherapy treatment
… the habitual sleep/wake patterns of women with breast cancer and their informal caregivers may be concurrently exacerbated and co-vary during the patient’s treatment. The current study set out to longitudinally ex-plore sleep-wake patterns of patient-caregiver dyads in the context of adjuvant …
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Improvement of image reconstruction speed with GPU in cone beam CT breast imaging
Breast cancer is the most common and the second lethal cancer among women in the United States. Our group is constructing a dedicated cone beam breast CT (CBCT) system to provide true 3D image to improve the screening and diagnostic of breast cancer. Our result shows that dedicated CBCT out-perform …
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NARRATIVE MEDICINE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICAL INTERVIEWING APPROACHES IN WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER
Interactions between early-stage breast cancer patients and their medical providers were analyzed, focusing on the content of the medical encounter and the patients' subsequent recall of that information. Traditional biomedical interviewing, narrative medicine approaches, and emerging types of …
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A New Breast Cancer Image Classifier Using Gaussian Mixture Model Based on Histogram and Enhanced Roughness Index
<p>Early stage breast cancer detection is a critical challenge to improve survive rate, and thus it is extremely important to perform breast tumor image classification. In this thesis, a new method based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to perform the breast tumor classification into two different …
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Stromal-epithelial dynamics in response to fractionated radiotherapy
… central to the management of a number of human cancers, either as an adjuvant or primary treatment modality. The principal objective in irradiating tumors is to permanently inhibit their proliferative ability. More than half of all malignancies are primarily treated with radiation, but the …
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Physical Activity Predicts Physical Function in Women Undergoing Breast Cancer Treatment
The American Cancer Society estimates that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Due to 5-year survival rates of 89.7%, it is important to examine factors that impact physical function over the course of cancer treatment. Purpose: To prospectively analyze changes in …
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Factors affecting treatment decision making for women with breast cancer
… treatment decision making for young women with early stage breast cancer. Thirty women, aged 35 to 52 years, were presented information about two equally effective chemotherapy treatments following surgery for breast cancer using an educational instrument called a "decision board." Although …
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Investigating Invasion In Ductal Carcinoma In Situ With to pographical Single Cell Genome Sequencing
… Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS-IDC) is an early stage breast cancer invasion in which it is possible to delineate genomic evolution during invasion because of the presence of both in situ and invasive regions within the same sample. While laser capture microdissection studies of DCIS-IDC …
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Comparison of Text Analysis Programs for Identification of Emotional Expression
… the pain associated with traumatic experiences, cancer diagnoses, and chronic illnesses. Written interventions have been developed to utilize this emotional coping approach. Unfortunately, evaluation of participants and patients written text is time consuming and subjective to the coder. …
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Similarity Measurement of Breast Cancer Mammographic Images Using Combination of Mesh Distance Fourier Transform and Global Features
<p>Similarity measurement in breast cancer is an important aspect of determining the vulnerability of detected masses based on the previous cases. It is used to retrieve the most similar image for a given mammographic query image from a collection of previously archived images. By analyzing these …
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Metastatic Breast Cancer: Biomolecular Characterization and Targeted Therapy
… a major challenge in the clinical management of cancer, because most cancer-related deaths are attributed to disseminated disease rather than the primary tumor. Despite the significant advances in the prediction of prognosis, and therapeutic management of primary breast cancers, coupled with the …
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Dual-modality thermoacoustic and photoacoustic imaging
Diagnosis of early breast cancer is the key to survival. The combined contrasts from thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography: TAT and PAT) can potentially predict early stage breast cancer. We have designed and engineered a breast imaging system integrating both thermoacoustic and photoacoustic …
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The economic and clinical outcomes and policy implications of gene expression profiling in breast cancer care
In the U.S., the majority of premenopausal breast cancer patients are recommended by clinical guidelines to receive adjuvant chemotherapy to prevent disease progression and increase survival. However, low-risk patients may be experiencing the side effects of chemotherapy, with no corresponding …
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Investing in Clinical Trials for Older Adults: The Value and Challenges of Older Adult-Specific Clinical Trials
… the risk of failure of older adult-specific cancer clinical trials, using trial-level factors. The best-performing machine learning model had an acceptable performance and included nine trial-level factors that can be measured using the trial protocol. The model can aid in the design and …
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Development of ZnO Nanotube Arrays for Chemical Sensing
… global warming, air pollution, and the rise in cancer rates. The common cause is the excessive use of fossil fuels. It has been widely recognized that net-zero emissions should be achieved before the year 2050. Hydrogen produced using renewable sources is a clean energy vector that could help …
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