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A physical activity quality-of-life intervention in androgen-ablated prostate cancer
Effect of computer-based support on prostate cancer treatment decisions
Nursing's impact on quality of life post-prostatectomy
Facilitating participation in a prostate cancer family risk assessment program
Life assessment for prostate cancer decision models
Prostate-specific antigen screening and mortality from prostate cancer
Other Cancers
Posttraumatic stress among mothers of children who survive cancer
Other
Development of cost-effective models of cancer care
Conversations about cancer: understanding how families talk through illness
Comparing treatments using the Q-twist methodology
Cancer-related health behaviors of Vietnamese youth: longitudinal study
Legal reforms: effects of cancer diagnosis, treatment costs, outcomes
Message framing, persuasion, and cancer prevention/detection
Improving pain control: patient and family education
Coaching patients with cancer to report sensory pain experience
SOURCE: ACS, 1998.
Several other private organizations support cancer-related health services research to a limited extent (Table 7.2).
TABLE 7.2
Current Extramural Health Services Research Projects Supported by Foundations or Private Organizations and Listed on HSRProj
Organization
Project
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Smoking and cancer screening: chronic disease prevention for older women
Supporting quality improvement and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standard setting for pain management in hospitals
Research on cancer screening among Hispanic women
United Hospital Fund
Improving clinical care for early-stage breast cancer patients: changing physician practices
Aetna, Inc.
Preparing African-American men for decision making about prostate cancer and early detection
Using performance measures to motivate process improvement: a randomized trial
