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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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’ …
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 …
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. …
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 …