D W Bruner
Affiliation: Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Relative risk of prostate cancer for men with affected relatives: systematic review and meta-analysisDeborah Watkins Bruner
Department of Population Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Int J Cancer 107:797-803. 2003..This meta-analysis confirms that risk of prostate cancer is associated with family history of disease and improves the quantification of this risk...
- Patient-reported outcomes assessment in cancer trials: taking stock, moving forwardJoseph Lipscomb
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:5133-40. 2007....
- Predictors of preferences and utilities in men treated with 3D-CRT for prostate cancerDeborah Watkins Bruner
Department of Population Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 58:34-42. 2004..To assess the preferences and utilities for prostate cancer health state scenarios of men treated with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy and the predictors of treatment preferences...
- Outcomes research in cancer clinical trial cooperative groups: the RTOG modelD W Bruner
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Qual Life Res 13:1025-41. 2004....
- Funding patient-reported outcomes in cancer clinical trialsCarol M Moinpour
Southwest Oncology Group Statistical Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98104 1024, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:5100-5. 2007....
- Issues and challenges with integrating patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials supported by the National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trials networksDeborah Watkins Bruner
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing American College of Radiology Imaging Network, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6096, USA upenn edu
J Clin Oncol 25:5051-7. 2007..The objective of this report is to provide a historical overview of and the issues and challenges inherent in the incorporation of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) into multinational cancer clinical trials in the cancer cooperative groups...
- Health-related quality of life in men receiving prostate brachytherapy on RTOG 98-05Steven J Feigenberg
Department of Radiation Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111 2497, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 62:956-64. 2005..To prospectively assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) during the first year after treatment with prostate brachytherapy (PB) alone for T1c-2a prostate cancer...
- Using focus groups to adapt ethnically appropriate, information-seeking and recruitment messages for a prostate cancer screening program for men at high riskCharlene J Bryan
School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:674-82. 2008..To adapt ethnically appropriate radio and newspaper messages in order to increase information-seeking and recruitment to the high-risk Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program (PRAP) using input from focus groups...
- Randomized trial results of quality of life comparing whole abdominal irradiation and combination chemotherapy in advanced endometrial carcinoma: A gynecologic oncology group studyDeborah Watkins Bruner
Department of Population Science and Radiation Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Qual Life Res 16:89-100. 2007..To prospectively compare quality of life (QOL) outcomes in patients with advanced endometrial cancer treated with whole abdominal irradiation (WAI) or doxorubicin-cisplatin (AP) chemotherapy...
- Reducing cancer disparities for minorities: a multidisciplinary research agenda to improve patient access to health systems, clinical trials, and effective cancer therapyDeborah Watkins Bruner
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 6096, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:2209-15. 2006..These programs are offered as models for improving minority recruitment to cancer-control and -treatment trials, and minority access to cancer treatment in general...
- Randomized trial of short- versus long-course radiotherapy for palliation of painful bone metastasesWilliam F Hartsell
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove, IL, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:798-804. 2005..We investigated whether 8 Gy delivered in a single treatment fraction provides pain and narcotic relief that is equivalent to that of the standard treatment course of 30 Gy delivered in 10 treatment fractions over 2 weeks...
- The sexual impact of cancer and cancer treatments in menDeborah Watkins Bruner
School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 418 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Nurs Clin North Am 42:555-80; vi. 2007..Little study has been devoted to interventions that may improve compliance, such as counseling, or that focus on aspects of male sexuality other than erectile dysfunction...
- Should patient-reported outcomes be mandatory for toxicity reporting in cancer clinical trials?Deborah Watkins Bruner
J Clin Oncol 25:5345-7. 2007
- Can physicians accurately predict survival time in patients with metastatic cancer? Analysis of RTOG 97-14William F Hartsell
Department of Radiation Oncology, Advocate Good Samaritan Cancer Center, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515, USA
J Palliat Med 11:723-8. 2008..To determine if physician prediction of survival duration (PSD) is accurate for patients with metastatic breast or prostate cancer...