2023
Aging a Decade in a Day: Age Cutoff Bias in Adjuvant Therapy Allocation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Talcott W, Cain D, Yang D, Mougalian S, Evans S. Aging a Decade in a Day: Age Cutoff Bias in Adjuvant Therapy Allocation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer. International Journal Of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics 2023, 116: 747-756. PMID: 37125983, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.12.057.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly-stage breast cancerAdjuvant therapy recommendationsMultivariable logistic regressionTherapy recommendationsBreast cancerAge 70Cohort 2Odds ratioCohort 1Years age differenceLogistic regressionNational Cancer DatabaseHigh-risk featuresHormone receptor positivityConfidence intervalsAdjuvant treatmentEndocrine therapyPatient ageIndependent predictorsReceptor positivityTherapy allocationAge 69Cancer DatabaseTreatment allocationAge differences
2013
Dosimetric and clinical predictors of the development of moist desquamation in breast cancer irradiation
Rutter C, Qin L, Higgins S, Moran M, Evans S. Dosimetric and clinical predictors of the development of moist desquamation in breast cancer irradiation. Journal Of Radiation Oncology 2013, 3: 147-152. DOI: 10.1007/s13566-013-0129-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMoist desquamationWhole breast radiotherapyAdjuvant whole breast radiotherapyLogistic regressionResultsTwenty-three patientsBreast cancer irradiationKaplan-Meier analysisImpact of patientLog-rank testMultivariate logistic regressionSignificant predictorsDose-volume relationshipClinical predictorsConsecutive patientsPatient factorsBreast radiotherapyGy fractionsCancer irradiationPatientsRadiotherapyBMIBreastTreatment factorsGyDesquamation