A L Cheville

..A critical need for more definitive evidence to guide patient management characterizes the current treatment algorithms for surgical sequelae...

..Hopefully, new diagnostic tools for detecting subclinical lymphedema, identifying modifiable risk factors, and better understanding lymphedema pathogenesis will improve primary prevention and care...

..Exercise benefits patients with cancer, but studies of home-based approaches, particularly among those with Stage IV disease, remain small and exploratory...

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..Fatigue among patients with cancer is prevalent, disabling, and treatable. While fatigue management guidelines have been in place for a decade, their use remains unclear...

..Exercise reduces cancer-related disablement and adverse symptoms, yet patients' attitudes toward exercise remain largely unexamined...

..To achieve a low respondent burden and increase the responsiveness of functional measurement by using an item response theory-based computer adaptive test (CAT), the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) CAT...

..Because the PSM may enhance many health state characteristics, assessments that integrate overall composite measures with evaluations of common, discrete impairments may be required to comprehensively assess its benefits...

..Aggregates of concurrent symptoms, known as symptom clusters (SxCls), have been described in predominantly cross-sectional samples of lung cancer (LC) patients undergoing treatment...

..A SxCl of fatigue, dyspnea, and cough has been delineated in a number of lung cancer cohorts...

..This study was designed to estimate utilities for lymphedema and characterize how utilities differ between subgroups defined by lymphedema etiology and distribution...

..Cheville AL, Basford JR, Troxel AB, Kornblith AB. Performance of common clinician- and self-report measures in assessing the function of community-dwelling people with metastatic breast cancer...

..We studied these issues by quantifying physical impairments in patients with metastatic breast cancer and by assessing how they are addressed...

..Physiatrists with a clinical interest are likely to be robustly rewarded with interest from the oncological community, as CRF is a frustrating and devastating problem for patients and clinicians alike...

..These finding suggest that SPECT/CT may be helpful in minimizing incidental LN irradiation and in directing breast cancer therapy to reduce long-term morbidity...

..This study was conducted to quantify the degree of concordance between patient-identified functional problems and their documentation in the oncology-generated medical record...

..Although multiple studies have evaluated breast surgery quality-of-life outcomes, the data are inconsistent. This factor is important to consider when counseling patients and defining surgical quality measures...

..To characterize the feasibility of delivering a structured physical therapy (PT) program as part of a multidisciplinary intervention to patients undergoing outpatient radiation therapy for advanced cancer...

..Lidocaine patches reduce neuropathic pain from herpes zoster but their benefits for persistent cancer-related postsurgical incisional pain remain unclear...

..The authors describe the combination of venous obstructions leading to this clinical presentation, which they term "SVC syndrome with a patent SVC."..

..A rubric for the development and implementation of rehabilitation goals at different cancer stages is described and illustrated with examples from breast and head and neck cancers...