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NCCS and CLC Comments on PCORI research priorities

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Joe Selby, M.D., M.P.H Executive Director Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Re: Draft National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda Dear Dr. Selby: The undersigned organizations, representing cancer patients, physicians, and researchers, are pleased to provide comments on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Draft National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda (version 1). We commend […]

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Beating the odds

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I have to admit it. Even today, I find interpreting statistics for patients very difficult; not because I don’t understand the concept of relative and absolute risks, hazard or odds ratios, or survival rates. It’s because in the end, they do not apply at an individual level. Too often in the course of a conversation […]

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Survival at a cost: common cancer treatment carries huge risks

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While the number of cancer survivors has tripled since the 1970s and continues to grow decades later, the cost of that survival for many of them has been the development of secondary cancers and cardiovascular disease related to radiation treatment, according to an upcoming report by a scientific committee. The committee, convened by the National […]

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Chemotherapy can impair cognition more than two decades later

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More than 20 years after treatment, breast cancer patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy exhibited cognitive deficits compared with women who were never diagnosed with cancer. The results, which appeared online February 27 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, suggest that the phenomenon known as chemobrain can persist for decades after cancer treatment ends and may […]

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