Purpose: To develop a transdisciplinary conceptualization of social belonging that could be
used to guide measurement approaches aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of community-…

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has increasingly recognized the need for
more personalized probabilistic predictions than those delivered by ordinal staging systems, …

Objective To determine the association between exposure to radiotherapy for the treatment
of prostate cancer and subsequent second malignancies (second primary cancers). Design …

Background Surgery is the fundamental curative option for gastric cancer patients. Imaging
scans are routinely prescribed in an attempt to stage the disease prior to surgery. …

Background Accurate preoperative staging is important in determining the appropriate
treatment of gastric cancer. Recently, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has been introduced as a …

Background Despite improved preoperative imaging techniques, patients with incurable or
unresectable gastric cancer are still subjected to non-therapeutic laparotomy. Diagnostic …

Purpose Improvement in the quality of life of patients with cancer requires attention to symptom
burden across the continuum of care, with the use of patient-reported outcomes key to …

Integrating diverse types of prognostic information into accurate, individualized estimates of
outcome in colorectal cancer is challenging. Significant heterogeneity in colorectal cancer …

Background Surgery is the only curative treatment for patients with gastric cancer. However,
the extent of lymph node dissection is still debated. Therefore, with the publication of newer …

Background There is lack of uniformity in the utilization of peritoneal cytology in gastric cancer
management. The identification of intraperitoneal free cancer cells (IFCCs) is believed to …