Gynecologic Cancers

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What are magic mouthwash alternatives that you would recommend?

There was a recall on viscous lidocaine and many of our patients cannot find it. What would you recommend as alternatives?

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How do you approach and manage anorexia and appetite loss in people with advanced cancer?

How do you counsel patients and caregivers? Do you prescribe medications (''appetite stimulants'') with the goal to improve appetite even if they do n...

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What is your approach to cancer patients who inquire about alternative or complementary treatments?

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How do you counsel patients with locally advanced malignancies who have ECOG 3-4?

How do you advise patients who strongly desire chemotherapy?

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What are best practices for oncologists during the national platinum shortage?

Please specify how your institution is allocating resources now or will be soon.

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What is your institutional approach to a restrictive “neutropenic diet”?

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In which patients with oncologic or hematologic disorders are you recommending a 3rd dose of mRNA COVID vaccine?

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How do you counsel patients who are candidates for a clinical trial regarding their options?

Specifically, are there strategies you use to 1) empower patients to participate in decision-making and 2) reassure patients who may be skeptical?

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How do you perform geriatric assessment for cancer patients?

Do you use specific tools or take into account certain factors when considering treatment options for older adults?

1 Answer available

How would you manage a young woman with vulvar langerhans cell histiocytosis and positive margins after wide local excision?

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The New England journal of medicine, 2016-07-14

Olanzapine for the Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting.

Practical radiation oncology, 2021 Sep-Oct

Medical Marijuana for Cancer: Perspective From a Radiation Oncologist Credentialed to Certify in Pennsylvania.

Palliative medicine, 2022 Mar 31

Efficacy of medicinal cannabis for appetite-related symptoms in people with cancer: A systematic review.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2023 Mar 28

Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study of Olanzapine for Chemotherapy-Related Anorexia in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Gastric, Hepatopancreaticobiliary, and Lung Cancer.

Ann Oncol, 2021 Mar 18

Association of Clinical Factors and Recent Anti-Cancer Therapy with COVID-19 Severity among Patients with Cancer: A Report from the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium.

Journal of hospital medicine, 2018-08-01

Things We Do For No Reason: Neutropenic Diet.

Front Oncol, 2022 Mar 09

Neutropenic Diet Cannot Reduce the Risk of Infection and Mortality in Oncology Patients With Neutropenia.

BMJ Support Palliat Care, 2022 Jul 08

Neutropenic versus regular diet for acute leukaemia induction chemotherapy: randomised controlled trial.

Nutr Cancer, 2019 Oct 12

Lack of Efficacy of the Neutropenic Diet in Decreasing Infections among Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2016-06

An Ethical Framework for Allocating Scarce Life-Saving Chemotherapy and Supportive Care Drugs for Childhood Cancer.

Pediatrics, 2014 Feb 02

Chemotherapy drug shortages in pediatric oncology: a consensus statement.

N. Engl. J. Med.,

Pembrolizumab for Early Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

The Journal of urology, 2018-12

Impact of the Number of Cycles of Platinum Based First Line Chemotherapy for Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma.

N. Engl. J. Med.,

Cisplatin plus gemcitabine versus gemcitabine for biliary tract cancer.

Lancet Oncol., 2014 Feb 18

Definitive chemoradiotherapy with FOLFOX versus fluorouracil and cisplatin in patients with oesophageal cancer (PRODIGE5/ACCORD17): final results of a randomised, phase 2/3 trial.

NEJM Evidence, 2022 Jun 1

Durvalumab plus Gemcitabine and Cisplatin in Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer

Br J Cancer, 2014 Apr 15

Gemcitabine-oxaliplatin plus prednisolone is active in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer for whom docetaxel-based chemotherapy failed.

Cancer, 2011-06-15

Frontline treatment of localized osteosarcoma without methotrexate: results of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital OS99 trial.

Eur J Cancer, 2017 Nov 28

Results of methotrexate-etoposide-ifosfamide based regimen (M-EI) in osteosarcoma patients included in the French OS2006/sarcome-09 study.

N. Engl. J. Med., 2019 Sep 28

Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab in Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.

Lancet Oncol, 2021 Jan 18

First-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab combined with two cycles of chemotherapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (CheckMate 9LA): an international, randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial.

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Apr 19

Five-Year Outcomes With Pembrolizumab Versus Chemotherapy for Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer With PD-L1 Tumor Proportion Score ≥ 50.

J Clin Oncol, 2003 Jul 01

Gemcitabine plus vinorelbine compared with cisplatin plus vinorelbine or cisplatin plus gemcitabine for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: a phase III trial of the Italian GEMVIN Investigators and the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group.

JAMA, 2019 Apr 16

Effect of Doxepin Mouthwash or Diphenhydramine-Lidocaine-Antacid Mouthwash vs Placebo on Radiotherapy-Related Oral Mucositis Pain: The Alliance A221304 Randomized Clinical Trial.

Head Neck, 2016 Mar 29

Effectiveness of honey on radiation-induced oral mucositis, time to mucositis, weight loss, and treatment interruptions among patients with head and neck malignancies: A meta-analysis and systematic review of literature.

The Lancet. Oncology, 2017-05

Prevention of everolimus-related stomatitis in women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer using dexamethasone mouthwash (SWISH): a single-arm, phase 2 trial.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2013-08-21

Wisconsin Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) to improve cancer-related fatigue: a randomized, double-blind trial, N07C2.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2018-01-01

Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival.

JAMA oncology, 2021 May 01

Effectiveness of Electroacupuncture or Auricular Acupuncture vs Usual Care for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Among Cancer Survivors: The PEACE Randomized Clinical Trial.

Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2020 Aug 07

Vitamin C and Cell Death.

Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR, 2020 Oct 07

Targeting tumor hypoxia and mitochondrial metabolism with anti-parasitic drugs to improve radiation response in high-grade gliomas.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2000 Nov 04

The role of complementary and alternative medicine.

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