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Simplified Graded Baseline Symptom Assessment in Patients With Lung Cancer Undergoing First-Line Chemotherapy: Correlations and Prognostic Role in a Resource-Constrained Setting

The Medical Research Council (MRC) scale was used to assess dyspnea, whereas the visual analog scale (VAS; score of 1 to 10) was used to assess anorexia, fatigue, chest pain, and cough. Weight loss ...
Medscape

Could Baseline MRIs Reshape Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment?

Adding baseline MRI to conventional prostate cancer risk stratification could improve prognostic accuracy, potentially affecting active surveillance and treatment decisions for some patients, ...
The Daily Telegraph

'Unfair' primary school baseline assessments dropped as progress measure

Primary school baseline tests designed to measure pupil progress have been scrapped following a study that labelled the tests "inappropriate" and "unfair to schools". Following ongoing criticism of ...
BMJ

Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA): baseline evaluation of cognition in the athletic population

1 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2 Sport Medicine Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, ...
Army Times

Army adds cognitive test to track new soldier brain health

Soldiers with 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, blow an improvised door handle charge to infiltrate a locked door. (Capt. H. Howey/Army) The Army will begin conducting a cognitive ...