CDHA CAAR » cancer http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo Current Awareness in Aging Research Thu, 02 May 2013 21:46:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 CAAR – US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Article – November 5, 2012 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=3379 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=3379#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:06:41 +0000 admin http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=3379 “Linking Medicare, Medicaid, and Cancer Registry Data to Study the Burden of Cancers in West Virginia,” by Pramit A. Nadpara and Suresh S. Madhavan (Medicare & Medicaid Research Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, November 2012, .pdf format, 25p.).

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]]> http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?feed=rss2&p=3379 0 CAAR – US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Articles – August 1, 2012 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2404 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2404#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:15:55 +0000 admin http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2404 A. “Cancer Outcomes in Low-Income Elders: Is There An Advantage to Being on Medicaid?” by Siran M. Koroukian, Paul M. Bakaki, Cynthia Owusu, Craig C. Earle, and Gregory S. Cooper (Medicare and Medicaid Research Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012 Q2, .pdf format, 22p.).

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B. “Linkages Between Utilization of Prostate Surgical Pathology Services and Physician Self-Referral,” by Jean M. Mitchell (Medicare and Medicaid Research Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012 Q3, .pdf format, 18p.).

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]]> http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?feed=rss2&p=2404 0 CAAR – Lancet Oncology Article Abstracts – June 29, 2012 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2043 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2043#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:22:15 +0000 admin http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2043 A. “Thoracic radiotherapy with or without daily low-dose carboplatin in elderly patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: a randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial by the Japan Clinical Oncology Group (JCOG0301),” by Dr. Shinji Atagi, Masaaki Kawahara, Akira Yokoyama, Hiroaki Okamoto, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, Yuichiro Ohe, Toshiyuki Sawa, Satoshi Ishikura, Taro Shibata, Haruhiko Fukuda, Nagahiro Saijo, and Tomohide Tamura (Vol. 13, No. 7, July 2012, p. 671-678).

www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(12)70139-0/abstract

B. “Temozolomide chemotherapy alone versus radiotherapy alone for malignant astrocytoma in the elderly: the NOA-08 randomised, phase 3 trial,” by Wolfgang Wick, Michael Platten, Christoph Meisner, Jorg Felsberg, Ghazaleh Tabatabai, Matthias Simon, Guido Nikkhah, Kirsten Papsdorf, Joachim P. Steinbach, Michael Sabel, Stephanie E. Combs, Jan Vesper, Christian Braun, Jurgen Meixensberger, Ralf Ketter, Regine Mayer-Steinacker, Guido Reifenberger, and Michael Weller, for the NOA-08 Study Group of the Neuro-oncology Working Group (NOA) of the German Cancer Society (Vol. 13, No. 7, July 2012, p. 707-715).

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