Department of Surgery, Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System and the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Health Care System and the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA; Office of Cancer Survivorship, Division...

While the extent of progress in the war on cancer is sometimes debated, it is indisputable that the number of individuals in the population who have previously been diagnosed with cancer continues to grow. Data from the U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program indicate that 65.5% of cancer patients diagnosed between 1995 and 2000 will survive z5 years. Site-specific malignancies...

As the Internet has changed communication, commerce, and the distribution of information, so too it is changing psychological research. Psychologists can observe new or rare phenomena online and can do research on traditional psychological topics more efficiently, enabling them to expand the scale and scope of their research. Yet these opportunities entail risk both to research quality and to h...

PURPOSE The purpose of this review is to provide a summary of the rationale for engaging patients in research as well as to review the established and envisioned advantages and strategies for patient-researcher partnerships. The authors of this article, which include a patient and 4 researchers in kidney disease, discuss the expected benefits and opportunities for patient engagement in their re...

We present a perspective on the societal accomplishments, recent cultural shifts, challenges, and opportunities in spatial computing based on the discussions at the 2012 Computing Community Consortium (CCC) visioning workshop, “From GPS and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing – 2020,” held at the National Academies’ Keck Center to assess interdisciplinary developments and research challenges in...

Cancer has been treated with radiopharmaceuticals for 80 years. A recent National Cancer Research Institute report from the Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Research Working Group reviews the current status of molecular radiotherapy and has highlighted the barriers to and opportunities for increased research activities. The report recommends a number of actions to promote this field, whi...