CONTEXT: The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) is a widely used, self-report
symptom intensity tool for assessing nine common symptoms in palliative care, with ratings …

Background Options for women at high risk for breast cancer include surveillance,
chemoprevention, and prophylactic mastectomy. The data on the outcomes for surveillance and …

Background Clinical experience suggests that many women with triple-negative metastatic
breast cancer (MBC) relapse quickly. This has implications for clinical practice and trial design…

Background: Advance care planning and goals of care discussions involve the exploration
of what is most important to a person, including their values and beliefs in preparation for …

PURPOSE: To construct empirically a conversion table to convert performance status scores
among the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG), Karnofsky Performance Status (…

This document is an international evidence-based guideline on the diagnosis and management
of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and is a collaborative effort of the American Thoracic …

Background: In 2002 the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS)
classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) defined seven specific entities, …

Background: This document provides clinical recommendations for the diagnosis of
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). It represents a collaborative effort between the American …

Background: This American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Japanese
Respiratory Society, and Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax guideline updates prior …

Denaturant m values, the dependence of the free energy of unfolding on denaturant
concentration, have been collected for a large set of proteins. The m value correlates very strongly …