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Carol Sawka
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 84
Citations - 7890
Carol Sawka is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breast cancer & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 83 publications receiving 7083 citations. Previous affiliations of Carol Sawka include Cancer Care Ontario & Women's College, Kolkata.
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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Clinical Features and Patterns of Recurrence
Rebecca Dent,Maureen E. Trudeau,Kathleen I. Pritchard,Wedad Hanna,Harriet K. Kahn,Carol Sawka,Lavina Lickley,Ellen Rawlinson,Ping Sun,Steven A. Narod +9 more
TL;DR: Triple-negative breast cancers have a more aggressive clinical course than other forms of breast cancer, but the adverse effect is transient.
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Randomized Trial of Long-Term Follow-Up for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: A Comparison of Family Physician Versus Specialist Care
Eva Grunfeld,Mark Levine,Jim A. Julian,Doug Coyle,Barbara Szechtman,Doug Mirsky,Shailendara Verma,Susan Dent,Carol Sawka,Kathleen I. Pritchard,David Ginsburg,Marjorie Wood,Timothy J. Whelan +12 more
TL;DR: Breast cancer patients can be offered follow-up by their family physician without concern that important recurrence-related SCEs will occur more frequently or that HRQL will be negatively affected.
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Use of Complementary/Alternative Medicine by Breast Cancer Survivors in Ontario: Prevalence and Perceptions
Heather Boon,Moira Stewart,Mary Ann Kennard,Ross Gray,Carol Sawka,Judith Belle Brown,Carol L. McWilliam,Alan Gavin,Ruth Anne Baron,Dorothy Aaron,Theresa Haines-Kamka +10 more
TL;DR: CAM use is common among Canadian breast cancer survivors, many of whom are discussing CAM therapy options with their physicians, and knowledge of CAM therapies is necessary for physicians and other health care practitioners to help patients make informed choices.
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Helping Patients Make Informed Choices: A Randomized Trial of a Decision Aid for Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer
Timothy J. Whelan,Carol Sawka,Mark Levine,Amiram Gafni,Leonard M. Reyno,Andrew R. Willan,Jim A. Julian,Susan Dent,H. Abu-Zahra,Edmond Chouinard,Richard Tozer,Kathleen I. Pritchard,Ilona Bodendorfer +12 more
TL;DR: When making decisions regarding adjuvant chemotherapy, patients with early breast cancer who had been exposed to the Decision Board had better knowledge of the disease and treatment options and greater satisfaction with their decision making than those who received the standard consultation.
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Randomized trial of a patient decision aid for choice of surgical treatment for breast cancer.
TL;DR: Although the decision aid had minimal impact on the main study outcomes, a subgroup of women who were initially leaning toward mastectomy or were unsure had lower decisional conflict and may have benefited.