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  1. Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/head-neck-cancer-update/consumer

  2. Stem-Cell-Children Surveillance (pdf file)

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    October 29, 2012 - Pediatric Oncologist, Pediatric Medical Oncology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York … , and high-risk relapsed Wilm’s tumor. … , Germ Cell and Embryonal"/ (256042) 33 ("germ cell tumor*" or "germ cell cancer" or "germ cell … / (617) 73 ("choroid plexus" and (tumor or tumour or tumors or tumours or neoplasm*)).mp. (1944) … , and high-risk relapsed Wilm’s tumor.

  3. Breast-Biopsy-Update Executive (pdf file)

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    September 01, 2014 - on core needle biopsy were assumed to be correct, whether or not a tumor was observed upon surgical … The original version of this review also classified all diagnoses of malignancy on core needle biopsy … In such cases of core needle diagnoses of malignancy, we considered the core needle results to be true … included in the ECRI report stated that open surgical biopsy may miss one to two percent of breast cancers … The clinical significance of these findings is unclear; tumor development on the biopsy needle track

  4. Data-Points-7-Tables1 (xls file)

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    May 29, 2025 - Cancer Condition Categories (CCs) With Descriptions CC Number CC Description 7 Metastatic Cancer … and Acute Leukemia 8 Lung, Upper Digestive Tract, and Other Severe Cancers 9 Lymphatic, Head and … Neck, Brain, and Other Major Cancers 10 Breast, Prostate, Colorectal, and Other Cancers and Tumors … 11 Other Respiratory and Heart Neoplasms 12 Other Digestive and Urinary Neoplasms 13 Other Neoplasms … 14 Benign Neoplasms of Skin, Breast, Eye OT.3 Table 3.

  5. Data-Points-7-Tables (xls file)

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    May 29, 2025 - Cancer Condition Categories (CCs) With Descriptions CC Number CC Description 7 Metastatic Cancer … and Acute Leukemia 8 Lung, Upper Digestive Tract, and Other Severe Cancers 9 Lymphatic, Head and … Neck, Brain, and Other Major Cancers 10 Breast, Prostate, Colorectal, and Other Cancers and Tumors … 11 Other Respiratory and Heart Neoplasms 12 Other Digestive and Urinary Neoplasms 13 Other Neoplasms … 14 Benign Neoplasms of Skin, Breast, Eye OT.3 Table 3.

  6. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

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    June 01, 2012 - For example, the Oncotype Dx® test evaluates the tumor genome of excised tumors from patients with breast … and other solid tumors. … and other solid tumors. … HER2 Testing To Manage Patients With Breast Cancer or Other Solid Tumors. … HER2 Testing To Manage Patients With Breast Cancer or Other Solid Tumors.

  7. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

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    June 01, 2012 - For example, the Oncotype Dx® test evaluates the tumor genome of excised tumors from patients with breast … and other solid tumors. … and other solid tumors. … HER2 Testing To Manage Patients With Breast Cancer or Other Solid Tumors. … HER2 Testing To Manage Patients With Breast Cancer or Other Solid Tumors.

  8. Effective Health Care (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2011 - Staff-Generated PICO Population(s): Cancer patients completing primary treatment, including adults … models of care Outcome(s): Benefits: earlier detection and treatment of recurrence or new primary cancers … Harms: Earlier initiation of treatment for cancer progression that does not increase survival (thereby … )  A cancer survivor refers to an individual who has been diagnosed with cancer from their diagnosis … Uncertainty exists on how to best provide care to cancer survivors, and many models of survivorship

  9. Local Therapies for Unresectable Colorectal Cancer Metastases to the Liver: A Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

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  10. Partial Breast Irradiation for Breast Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

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  11. Disposition of Comments Report for Core Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for Diagnosis of Breast Lesions: An Update to the 2009 Report (pdf file)

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    September 10, 2014 - If every malignancy-containing core biopsy is correctly diagnosed as malignancy, then there is a zero … If individual cases reveal no residual tumor in the surgical specimen, this simply means the malignancy … Displacement of tumor cells (or benign cells) due to core biopsy and occasional mechanical transport … Question we use the term “studies of dissemination or displacement”, to capture both studies of new tumor … , however both DCIS and invasive breast cancers are recommended for treatment, which subsequently affects

  12. Childhood Brain Tumors | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

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  13. Imaging Tests for the Diagnosis and Staging of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/cancer-pancreas/research-protocol

  14. Evaluating Outcomes of PET Scanning Using the National Oncologic PET Registry | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/cancer-registry-pet/abstract

  15. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 43: Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research (pdf file)

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    June 20, 2023 - Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research. … organizational factors in non-cancer care research. … “Myriad of cancer care contexts” refers to other aspects or multiple aspects of cancer care, examples … care delivery and enhance cancer care and outcomes?’ … Stratification of findings based on the cancer care continuum is not justified.

  16. Disposition of Comments: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 232_Interventions for Breathlessness in Patients With Advanced Cancer (pdf file)

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    November 19, 2020 - The rationale for only including patients with advanced cancer instead of only patients with cancer … However, no cancer-specific outcomes were presented. … Cancer. 2020;28(1):87- 98. 2. … Advanced cancer was our charge from ASCO. … Our protocol was to include studies if more than half were cancer patients or if cancer outcomes were

  17. Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation: Executive summary for the update of an ASTRO Evidence-Based Consensus Statement (pdf file)

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    April 01, 2017 - the higher risk of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence with IORT compared with whole breast irradiation … is a localized form of radiation delivered after lumpectomy to only the part of the breast where the tumor … APBI delivered with multicatheter interstitial brachytherapy.1 The 5-year risk of ipsilateral breast tumor … single-institution investigation reported a trend toward higher risk of time to IBTR among pure DCIS tumors … criteria for cautionary Margins Positive No change DCIS N3 cm No change a The size of the invasive tumor

  18. Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: Update of a 2008 Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

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  19. Patient Navigation Models for Lung Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

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  20. Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/organization-cancer-care/protocol
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