Browsing by Author "Nguyen, Paul"
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Advanced nodal stage predicts venous thromboembolism in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Li, Richard Jay; Hermann, Gretchen; Baldini, Elizabeth Healey; Chen, Aileen Betty; Jackman, David M; Kozono, David Eiichi; Nguyen, Paul Linh; Nohria, Anju; Powell, Graham; Mak, Raymond Heungwing (Elsevier BV, 2016)Objectives: Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are known to be at high risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE), but previous studies have not specifically analyzed locally advanced disease. We performed a ... -
Conditional cancer-specific mortality in T4, N1, or M1 prostate cancer: implications for long-term prognosis
Muralidhar, Vinayak; Mahal, Brandon A; Nguyen, Paul Linh (Springer Science + Business Media, 2015)Background: The risk of prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM) following a diagnosis of prostate cancer may improve after patients have survived a number of years after diagnosis. We sought to determine long-term ... -
Data on Medicare eligibility and cancer screening utilization
Meyer, Christian P.; Allard, Christopher B.; Sammon, Jesse D.; Hanske, Julian; McNabb-Baltar, Julia; Goldberg, Joel E.; Reznor, Gally; Lipsitz, Stuart R.; Choueiri, Toni K.; Nguyen, Paul L.; Weissman, Joel S.; Trinh, Quoc-Dien (Elsevier, 2016)Health insurance is associated with increased utilization of cancer screening services. Data on breast, prostate and colorectal cancer screening were abstracted from the 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor and Surveillance System. ... -
Disparities in selective referral for cancer surgeries: implications for the current healthcare delivery system
Sun, Maxine; Karakiewicz, Pierre I; Sammon, Jesse D; Sukumar, Shyam; Gervais, Mai-Kim; Nguyen, Paul L; Choueiri, Toni K; Menon, Mani; Trinh, Quoc-Dien (BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)Objectives: Among considerable efforts to improve quality of surgical care, expedited measures such as a selective referral to high-volume institutions have been advocated. Our objective was to examine whether racial, ... -
Interfractional Variations in the Setup of Pelvic Bony Anatomy and Soft Tissue, and Their Implications on the Delivery of Proton Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer
Trofimov, Alexei V.; Nguyen, Paul Linh; Efstathiou, Jason Alexander; Wang, Yi; Lu, Hsiao-ming; Engelsman, Martijn; Merrick, Scott; Cheng, Chee-Wai; Wong, James R.; Zietman, Anthony (Elsevier BV, 2011)Purpose To quantify daily variations in the anatomy of patients undergoing radiation therapy for prostate carcinoma, to estimate their effect on dose distribution, and to evaluate the effectiveness of current standard ... -
Natural History of Untreated Prostate Specific Antigen Radiorecurrent Prostate Cancer in Men with Favorable Prognostic Indicators
Martin, Neil E.; Chen, Ming-Hui; Beard, Clair J.; Nguyen, Paul L.; Loffredo, Marian J.; Renshaw, Andrew A.; Kantoff, Philip W.; D'Amico, Anthony V. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)Background and Purpose. Life expectancy data could identify men with favorable post-radiation prostate-specific antigen (PSA) failure kinetics unlikely to require androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Materials and Methods. ... -
Variability in MRI vs. ultrasound measures of prostate volume and its impact on treatment recommendations for favorable-risk prostate cancer patients: a case series
Murciano-Goroff, Yonina R; Wolfsberger, Luciant D; Parekh, Arti; Fennessy, Fiona M; Tuncali, Kemal; Orio, Peter F; Niedermayr, Thomas R; Suh, W Warren; Devlin, Phillip M; Tempany, Clare Mary C; Sugar, Emily H Neubauer; O’Farrell, Desmond A; Steele, Graeme; O’Leary, Michael; Buzurovic, Ivan; Damato, Antonio L; Cormack, Robert A; Fedorov, Andriy Y; Nguyen, Paul L (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Prostate volume can affect whether patients qualify for brachytherapy (desired size ≥20 mL and ≤60 mL) and/or active surveillance (desired PSA density ≤0.15 for very low risk disease). This study examines ...