Real-world data: towards achieving the achievable in cancer care

CM Booth, S Karim, WJ Mackillop - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2019 - nature.com
The use of data from the real world to address clinical and policy-relevant questions that
cannot be answered using data from clinical trials is garnering increased interest. Indeed, data …

Association between prognosis and tumor laterality in early-stage colon cancer

S Karim, K Brennan, S Nanji, SR Berry… - JAMA oncology, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Recent data have suggested that disease biology and outcome of colon cancer
may differ between right-sided and left-sided tumors. However, the literature on the …

Disease characteristics, clinical management, and outcomes of young patients with colon cancer: a population-based study

L Rodriguez, K Brennan, S Karim, S Nanji… - Clinical colorectal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction The incidence of colorectal cancer in young patients has been increasing. We
evaluated whether the disease characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy and safety of first-line systemic therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

NA Bosma, MT Warkentin, CL Gan, S Karim… - European urology open …, 2022 - Elsevier
Context Considerable advances have been made in the first-line treatment of metastatic
renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), with immunotherapy-based combinations including …

Management of stage III colon cancer in the elderly: practice patterns and outcomes in the general population

SJ Merchant, S Nanji, K Brennan, S Karim, SV Patel… - Cancer, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Clinical trials have established surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy
(ACT) as the standard management for stage III colon cancer; however, the extent to …

[HTML][HTML] Intimidation and harassment in residency: a review of the literature and results of the 2012 Canadian Association of Interns and Residents National Survey

S Karim, M Duchcherer - Canadian medical education journal, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Intimidation and harassment (I&H) have been longstanding problems in residency
training. These behaviours continue to be prevalent, as evidenced by the 2012 Canadian …

Perioperative chemotherapy for bladder cancer in the general population: Are practice patterns finally changing?

CM Booth, S Karim, K Brennan, DR Siemens… - … Oncology: Seminars and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Uptake of perioperative chemotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC)
has been historically poor. We describe contemporary use of neoadjuvant (NACT) and …

Patients' attitudes and preferences toward delayed disease progression in the absence of improved survival

…, J Galica, J Kankesan, S Karim… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Cancer patients’ attitudes toward progression-free survival (PFS) gains offered
by treatment are not well understood, particularly in the absence of overall survival (OS) …

[HTML][HTML] Oncology training and education initiatives in low and middle income countries: a scoping review

S Karim, Z Sunderji, M Jalink, S Mohamed… - …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The global cancer burden falls disproportionately on low and middle-income
countries (LMICs). One significant barrier to adequate cancer control in these countries is the …

Temporal trends in management and outcomes of testicular cancer: A population‐based study

…, DR Siemens, K Brennan, JP Izard, S Karim… - Cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Treatment guidelines for early‐stage testicular cancer have increasingly
recommended de‐escalation of therapy with surveillance strategies. This study was designed …