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Developing an mHealth Application to Coordinate Nurse-Provided Respite Care Services for Families Coping With Palliative-Stage Cancer - Protocol for a User-Centered Design Study

This paper describes a protocol to develop a mobile health app prototype for coordinating respite care services for families coping with palliative-stage cancer in Quebec.

Natural language processing and machine learning to assist radiation oncology incident learning

This paper, we describe an effort that began as an undergraduate term-research project of Hui Wang to semi-automate the process of categorizing incident reports in radiation oncology using natural language processing.

Development of a generalizable natural language processing pipeline to extract physician-reported pain from clinical reports - Generated using publicly-available datasets and tested on institutional clinical reports for cancer patients with bone metastases

This paper, which describes a method to extract physician-reported pain from clinical notes, is the outcome of the first part of the PhD project of student Hossein Naseri. Hossein's is developing an NLP and radiomics pipeline to predict pain in patients with bone metastases in order to potentially enable prophylactic palliative radiotherapy treatments.

Towards the characterization of neutron carcinogenesis through direct action simulations of clustered DNA damage

This paper, which is the culmination of Logan Montgomery's PhD studies, describes Logan's work simulating the direct action of ionizing radiation on a geometrical model of human DNA using the TOPAS-nBio framework. It builds upon our previous NICE research, in particular the MSc project of Chris Lund.

Satisfaction among Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Institutional Experience

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted oncology practices to prioritize patient safety while maintaining necessary treatment delivery. We obtained patient feedback on pandemic-based practices in our radiotherapy department to improve quality of patient …

Acceptability of a Patient Portal (Opal) in HIV Clinical Care: A Feasibility Study

Opal (opalmedapps.com), a patient portal in use at the Cedars Cancer Centre of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) (Montreal, Canada), gives cancer patients access to their medical records, collects information on patient-reported outcome …

Exploring Cancer Patients’ Perceptions of Accessing and Experience with Using the Educational Material in the Opal Patient Portal

Purpose: Opal is a new patient-centered mobile application that gives cancer patients access to their real time medical data in conjunction with disease- and treatment-specific patient education material. Few studies have focused on patients’ …

Development of a passive gold-foil Nested Neutron Spectrometer to validate the active current-mode He-3 measurements in a high neutron fluence rate radiotherapy environment

Nested Neutron Spectrometers™ (NNS) can be used to measure neutron fluence rate spectra under diverse circumstances with a working principle similar to Bonner sphere systems. Conventionally, the NNS consists of an active-readout He-3 detector core …

Implementation of a DVH Registry to provide constraints and continuous quality monitoring for pediatric CSI treatment planning

Craniospinal irradiation (CSI) is a complex radiation therapy technique that is used for patients, often children and teenagers/young adults, with tumors that have a propensity to spread throughout the central nervous system such as medulloblastoma. …

The impact of treatment parameter variation on secondary neutron spectra in high-energy electron beam radiotherapy

High-energy electron treatment procedures in radiotherapy pose a potential iatrogenic cancer risk as well as a critical health risk to patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices due to the generation of secondary neutrons in the linac …