Volume 4, Number 4 (April 2006)

Bench to Bedside

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Cancer Survivors and Infertility: A Review of a New Problem and Novel Answers
Carrie L. Nieman, BS, Ralph Kazer, MD, Robert E. Brannigan, MD, Laurie S. Zoloth, PhD, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, PhD, Karen Kinahan, RN, MS, BC, Kimberley J. Dilley, MD, Dorothy Roberts, JD, Lonnie D. Shea, PhD, and Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD

Center for Reproductive Science, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Urology, Center for Genetic Medicine, School of Education and Social Policy, Survivors Taking Action and Responsibility (STAR), Department of Pediatrics, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

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PEER VIEWPOINTS
An Individualized Approach to Fertility Preservation in Women With Cancer
Kutluk Oktay, MD, FACOG, Center for Reproductive Medicine & Infertility, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York

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Cancer Survivors and Infertility: Where Do We Go From Here?
W. Hamish Wallace, MD, and Richard A. Anderson, MD, PhD, Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Centre for Reproductive Biology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

full text 57 kb

Original Research

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The Financial Requirements and Time Commitments of Caregivers for Autologous Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
Kenneth R. Meehan, MD, Thomas Fitzmaurice, PhD, Lynn Root, RN, Elizabeth Kimtis, ARNP, Linda Patchett, RN, MBA, and John Hill, MD

Bone Marrow Transplant and Hematology Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire

abstract survey 96 kb full text 85 kb

Quality-of-Life Outcomes

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Development and Validation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Kidney Symptom Index (FKSI)
David Cella, PhD, Susan Yount, PhD, Hongyan Du, MS, Rahul Dhanda, PhD, Kathleen Gondek, PhD, Katie Langefeld, Jacquelyn George, William P. Bro, Celeste Kelly, and Ronald Bukowski, MD

Center on Outcomes, Research and Education (CORE), Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois; Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston, Illinois; Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, West Haven, Connecticut; Kidney Cancer Association, Evanston, Illinois; and The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

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How We Say It

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Communicating a Prognosis in Advanced Cancer
Christian T. Sinclair, MD

Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care, Kansas City, Missouri

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Letters to the Editor

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Pilot Study of Nitric Oxide-Donating Aspirin in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer Pain
Gregoris Iconomou, PhD, Haralabos P. Kalofonos, MD, PhD, Angelos K. Koutras, MD, Apostolos G. Vagenakis, MD, and Basil Rigas, MD, DSc

Department of Medicine, University of Patras Medical School, Rion, Greece, and Division of Cancer Prevention, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York

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Reader Services

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