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Correlates of Patient Intent and Preference on Colorectal Cancer Screening
Center Assistant Professor Dr. Karen Kelly-Blake is a co-author of an article in the April 2017 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The article, “Correlates of Patient Intent and Preference on Colorectal Cancer Screening,” is co-authored by Masahito Jimbo, … Continue reading
Do patients have a duty to participate in clinical trials?
The Choice to Become a Research Subject: A First-Person Perspective Event Flyer Patients with serious illnesses are often invited to participate in clinical trials. After being diagnosed with advanced cancer, I became one of those patients. I had to choose … Continue reading
Rights and Responsibilities at the End of Life
By Hannah Giunta, MPH, PhD
Questions about end-of-life care are always vexing, but a recent article in U.S. News and World Report suggests that cancer patients continue to receive useless but harmful treatments at the end of life (Thompson, 2016). A new research study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO’s) annual meeting revealed that a big part of the problem comes from a lack of meaningful dialogue among physicians, patients, and family members. Continue reading
Patients’ Survival Expectations With and Without Their Chosen Treatment for Prostate Cancer
Center Professor Emerita Dr. Margaret Holmes-Rovner is a contributing author on a new article published in Annals of Family Medicine, “Patients’ Survival Expectations With and Without Their Chosen Treatment for Prostate Cancer.” Published in the May/June 2016 issue, the study is … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Annals of Family Medicine, bioethics, cancer, cancer treatment, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, prostate cancer
Why not more research into preventing cancer?
This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Tom Tomlinson, PhD Why are so much money and effort put into research aimed at curing cancer, and so little devoted to preventing … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics in the News, Uncategorized
Tagged bioethics, cancer, drug development, drug trial, FDA, pharmaceutical industry, philosophy, research, Tom Tomlinson
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Why can it be difficult for oncologists to refuse patients late chemotherapy?
Oncologists’ decisions about administering late chemotherapy: What makes it so difficult? Event Flyer Background: An estimated 20-50% of incurable cancer patients receive chemotherapy in the last 30 days of life, although little data support this practice. Few studies have explored … Continue reading
Posted in Brownbag & Webinar Series
Tagged cancer, chemotherapy, Minnie Bluhm, oncology, study, webinar
Precision Medicine/Ambiguous Ethics?
This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Leonard Fleck, PhD In his State of the Union Address President Obama announced that he wished to set aside $215 million for his … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics in the News
Tagged cancer, cancer treatment, genome, Imatinib, Leonard Fleck, precision medicine
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