Health services research conducted over the past 25 years makes a compelling case that
having health insurance or using more medical care would improve the health of the …

Purpose: The epidemiology and treatment of prostate cancer have changed dramatically in
the prostate specific antigen era. A large disease registry facilitates the longitudinal …

With the risk of more than one in three getting cancer during a lifetime, each of us is likely to
experience cancer, or know someone who has survived cancer. Although some cancer …

Purpose To examine the prevalence and clustering of physical activity (PA), fruit and
vegetable consumption (5-A-Day), and smoking across six major cancer survivor groups …

Background The impact of constipation on quality of life (QoL) may vary in different cultural
or national settings. Aim We studied QoL in a multinational survey to compare different …

Men who were recently treated for prostate cancer (N= 250) were randomly assigned to a
control group, a group education intervention (GE), or a group education-plus-discussion …

Cirrhosis is associated with decrements in health-related quality of life (HRQOL), but the
specific effects of encephalopathy, especially subclinical, on quality of life are incompletely …

Understanding how individual people respond to medical therapy is a key facet of improving
the odds ratio that interventions will have a positive impact. Reducing the non-responder …

Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they
really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack …

BACKGROUND: Health literacy deficits affect half of the US overall patient population,
especially the elderly, and are linked to poor health outcomes among noncancer patients …