2025
Identifying risk factors for loss to follow-up in adults living with HIV in a high-burden district in Ghana
Mensah B, Mensah-Brown H, Partey F, Addo C, Buah G, Afudego G, Okyere D, Tetteh M, Boateng E, Wilson M, Paintsil E. Identifying risk factors for loss to follow-up in adults living with HIV in a high-burden district in Ghana. BMC Public Health 2025, 25: 1042. PMID: 40102895, PMCID: PMC11917097, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-22254-w.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFactors associated with LTFUHigh-burden districtsIdentified risk factorsRisk factorsAssociated with loss to follow-upPromote health literacyCare of personsBackgroundLoss to follow-upLoss to follow-upGlobal health initiativesAssociated with LTFULogistic regression modelsAntiretroviral therapyHealth literacyHIV careHealth initiativesFollow-upNo educationHIV clinicEffective interventionsEffectiveness of treatment strategiesLTFUHospital visitsCareMethodsA retrospective analysis
2016
Comparative Effectiveness of Treatment Strategies for Bladder Cancer With Clinical Evidence of Regional Lymph Node Involvement
Galsky M, Stensland K, Sfakianos J, Mehrazin R, Diefenbach M, Mohamed N, Tsao C, Boffetta P, Wiklund P, Oh W, Mazumdar M, Ferket B. Comparative Effectiveness of Treatment Strategies for Bladder Cancer With Clinical Evidence of Regional Lymph Node Involvement. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2016, 34: 2627-2635. PMID: 27269939, PMCID: PMC5012691, DOI: 10.1200/jco.2016.67.5033.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCombined-modality therapyLymph node involvementTreated with chemotherapyOverall survivalAdjuvant chemotherapyBladder cancerPreoperative chemotherapyNode involvementDistant metastasisChemotherapy trialsClinical evidence of regional lymph node involvementSurvival of patients treated with chemotherapyTreatment strategiesClinical lymph node involvementEvidence of regional lymph node involvementRegional lymph node involvementNational Cancer Data BasePatients treated with chemotherapyFirst-line chemotherapy trialsNeoadjuvant chemotherapy trialsTreated with cystectomyEffectiveness of treatment strategiesBladder cancer patientsLong-term survivalCystectomyComparative effectiveness of treatment strategies for urothelial cancer of the bladder (UCB) with clinical lymph node involvement (cN+).
Galsky M, Stensland K, Sfakianos J, Mehrazin R, Diefenbach M, Tsao C, Boffetta P, Oh W, Mazumdar M, Ferket B. Comparative effectiveness of treatment strategies for urothelial cancer of the bladder (UCB) with clinical lymph node involvement (cN+). Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2016, 34: 4530-4530. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2016.34.15_suppl.4530.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClinical lymph node involvementLymph node involvementEffectiveness of treatment strategiesNode involvementUrothelial cancerTreatment strategies
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