Background and Objectives: Current estimates of the proportion of cancer patients who will
require radiotherapy (RT) are based almost entirely on expert opinion. The objective of this …

Context: European studies have shown that the use of routine calcitonin screening for
detection of medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in patients with thyroid nodules increases the …

Background: Retinopathy is a common complication of diabetes mellitus that if detected
early by regular retinal examinations can be treated; thus, blindness can be delayed or …

Originally published in 1910, this book provides a detailed introduction to Victorian literature
and the context in which it was created. The main body of the text analyses the general …

Abstract Families often face financial and geographical barriers to services for children with
autism. The current study explored the effectiveness of a parent-supported adaptation of the …

WHAT is an essay? Perhaps the notions most widely prevalent with regard to this question
are, first, that an essay is a composition comparatively short, and second, that it is something …

Background It has been proposed that the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer is due to
increasing detection. Methods Using administrative data, we compare by year from 1993 to …

La theorie de l'information et l'analyse de la structure des couts des h6pitaux. La presente
etude concerne la Colombie Britannique et represente un prolongement de l'analyse des …

PURPOSE: Increasingly, cancer treatment centers need to be able to estimate specific costs
and resources associated with clinical trials. Because the time requirements of trial …

The objective of this study is to estimate the direct medical cost of end-of-life and palliative (EOL/PAL)
care for cancer patients during the last six months of their lives — or, during the …