Advertisement

Search Results

Advertisement



Your search for Anthony L. Back, MD matches 13 pages

Showing 1 - 13


supportive care
palliative care

Walther Cancer Foundation Endows New ASCO Special Award and Lecture for Palliative and Supportive Care

The Walther Cancer Foundation, Inc., a private foundation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, has endowed a new ASCO award and lecture bearing its name to be presented annually at the Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium. This grant represents a new foray for the foundation as it...

supportive care
palliative care

Advancing Care Across the Cancer Continuum

Addressing the need to integrate palliative and supportive care practices into medical specialties to ensure optimal patient-centered care across the cancer continuum and the evidence-based remedies to accomplish that goal were the focus of the nearly 300 study abstracts presented at the 2017...

supportive care
palliative care

How Effective Communication Is Integral to Patient-Centered Care

Communicating effectively with patients with advanced cancer not only helps patients and their family members successfully transition to palliative and end-of-life care, it can prevent physicians from experiencing professional burnout, according to Robert M. Arnold, MD, Distinguished Service...

issues in oncology

Anthony L. Back, MD, on Physician Burnout: The Response That’s Needed

Anthony L. Back, MD, of the University of Washington, talks about how clinicians can protect themselves from burnout and develop resilience. The default approach––“pretending we are not affected by stress”––often backfires, he says, and makes caregivers more susceptible to workplace pressures.

Scenes From ASCO 2016

1. General views. Photo © ASCO/Matt Herp 2016; 2. Amanda Redig, MD, PhD, recipient of the 2016 Women Who Conquer Cancer Young Investigator Award. Photo © ASCO/Danny Morton 2016; 3. Himisha Beltran, MD, speaks during Precision Medicine in Advanced Prostate Cancer: Understanding Genomics,...

Three Leaders in Radiation Oncology Awarded the ASTRO Gold Medal

Three leaders in radiation oncology have been named recipients of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Gold Medal. Benedick A. Fraass, PhD, FASTRO; ­Christopher G. Willett, MD, FASTRO; and ­Anthony L. Zietman, MD, FASTRO; will be recognized at an awards ceremony during ­ASTRO’s 58th...

palliative care

Anthony L. Back, MD, on Improving Communication Between Patient and Provider

Anthony L. Back, MD, of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, summarizes a general session on best practices and novel tools for enhancing communication between patients and oncology providers (Abstracts 8,9, 39).

prostate cancer
issues in oncology

New PSA Recommendations: The Debate over Prostate Cancer Screening Continues

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently issued a recommendation statement advising against the use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based testing for prostate cancer,1 leaving many in the oncology community concerned that decades of clinical progress will be stalled, and setting ...

issues in oncology

New Study on Communicating Bad News, from the Patient’s Perspective

There is limited evidence in the literature about how oncologists should discuss bad or serious news with their patients. A recent study sought to understand what patients with cancer value when their doctors communicate news of recurrence.1 The ASCO Post spoke with the study’s lead author, Anthony ...

issues in oncology

Clinically Inappropriate Patient Demands of Oncologists Happen More Infrequently Than Expected

A new study1 conducted at outpatient oncology centers found that only 1% of 5,050 patient-clinician encounters resulted in a clinically inappropriate request, of which very few were complied with by physicians. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues analyzed...

issues in oncology
palliative care

Why Just Having ‘Good’ Communication Skills Is Not Enough for Talking With Seriously Ill Patients

In the Institute of Medicine’s 2014 report Dying in America,1 the report’s authors found that while frequent clinician-patient conversations about end-of-life care, goals, and preferences are necessary to avoid unwanted treatment, most patients do not have those conversations with their physicians. ...

New Symposium Brings Together Oncologists and Primary Care Providers to Advance Survivorship Care and Research

With two-thirds of Americans now living at least 5 years after a cancer diagnosis, there are currently 14.5 million cancer survivors living in the United States. By 2024, that number is expected to increase by nearly 25%.1 Although the growing number of survivors is a welcome sign of progress, this ...

palliative care

More, Earlier, and Better Goals-of-Care Conversations at the End of Life Are Feasible

An intervention called the Serious Illness Care Program helps clinicians to conduct more, earlier, and better conversations about goals of care with their seriously ill patients, according to ­Rachelle E. Bernacki, MD, MS, who presented the preliminary results of a study using this approach at the...

Advertisement

Advertisement




Advertisement