We want to give a massive shout-out to Esther Chun-Pin Chang and the other members of Dr. Mia Hashibe’s Research team for their hard work in completing many research publications over the past few years.
We want to share two recent publications with you today, the first being Surveillance Imaging with PET/CT and CT and/or MRI for Head and Neck Cancer and Mortality: A Population-based Study.
According to Esther, the team found the most interesting thing in this retrospective population-based cohort study of 902 patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) was that a lower mortality rate was associated with surveillance imaging for regionalized and distant cancer stages than those without surveillance imaging.
The team utilized the Utah Population Database for their research. It took over a year to analyze the data and prepare the manuscript for submission, followed by another year of undergoing four rounds of revisions before the publication was finalized.
Read the complete publication at https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.212915.
The second publication we want to share is Sexual Dysfunction Among Gynecologic Cancer Survivors in a Population-based Cohort Study.
During this study, the team discovered that gynecological cancer patients had a higher risk of sexual dysfunction than women without this type of cancer. Although the actual incidence of sexual dysfunction in the study was surprisingly low compared to patient reports. This shows that much more work is needed to fully understand the risk factors associated with sexual dysfunction. Further efforts are required to diagnose, document, and treat sexual dysfunction in gynecologic cancer survivors to improve their quality of life.
If gynecologic cancer survivors could implement one takeaway from this study into their daily life, it would be to advocate for their sexual health during follow-up care. If they are experiencing sexual function symptoms during or after treatment, you should not hesitate to bring it up with your doctors. Doing so can lead to timely treatment in addressing this issue.
Read the complete publication at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-022-07469-6.
Anzai Y, Chang CP, Rowe K, Snyder J, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Date A, Galvao C, Monroe M, Hashibe M. Surveillance Imaging with PET/CT and CT and/or MRI for Head and Neck Cancer and Mortality: A Population-based Study. Radiology. 2023 Jan 10:212915. doi: 10.1148/radiol.212915. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36625743.
Chang CP, Wilson CM, Rowe K, Snyder J, Dodson M, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Date A, Stanford JB, Gaffney D, Mooney K, Hashibe M. Sexual dysfunction among gynecologic cancer survivors in a population-based cohort study. Support Care Cancer. 2022 Dec 17;31(1):51. doi: 10.1007/s00520-022-07469-6. PubMed PMID: 36526929; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9850804.