2023
Self‐reported COVID‐19 infection, and illness severity associated with a large professional‐society meeting of the AAPM in 2022
Talcott W, Ford E, Johnson J, Lincoln H, Evans S. Self‐reported COVID‐19 infection, and illness severity associated with a large professional‐society meeting of the AAPM in 2022. Medical Physics 2023, 50: 4689-4694. PMID: 37415569, DOI: 10.1002/mp.16592.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAmerican Association of Physicists in MedicineCOVID-19 infectionIn-person attendeesOdds ratioSeverity of COVID-19 infectionConfidence intervalsMultivariate logistic regressionAssociated with COVID-19 infectionInfection rateSeverity of infectionNational medical conferenceEmergency room visitsMultivariate analysisSelf-limitingCOVID-19 treatmentResponse rateIllness severityInfectionHospital admissionIn-person meetingsLogistic regressionRoom visitsIn-personSeverityCOVID-19Aging 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