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George Luta
Researcher at Georgetown University
Publications - 144
Citations - 3345
George Luta is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breast cancer & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 124 publications receiving 2748 citations. Previous affiliations of George Luta include Georgetown University Medical Center & Copenhagen University Hospital.
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Distress and the Parenting Dynamic Among BRCA1/2 Tested Mothers and Their Partners
Darren Mays,Tiffani A. DeMarco,George Luta,Beth N. Peshkin,Andrea Farkas Patenaude,Katherine A. Schneider,Judy Garber,Kenneth P. Tercyak +7 more
TL;DR: Findings indicate that conflicted decision-making over family communication of hereditary breast/ovarian cancer genetic test results for one member of a parenting dyad adversely affects the other dyad member's psychological well-being.
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Incidence of childhood cancer in Costa Rica, 2000-2014: An international perspective.
Friederike Erdmann,Tengfei Li,George Luta,Brenda M. Giddings,Guillermo Torres Alvarado,Eva Steliarova-Foucher,Joachim Schüz,Ana M. Mora +7 more
TL;DR: Based on the longstanding registration system, the childhood cancer incidence rates in Costa Rica were similar to those observed in other Latin American countries, and the markedly high leukemia rates, in particular of the lymphoid sub-type deserves further study in this population.
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Objective support for subjective reports of successful inner speech in two people with aphasia.
TL;DR: It is shown that reports of successful inner speech in people with aphasia are associated with correct overt speech and phonologically related nonword errors, that they relate to word characteristics associated with ease of lexical access but not ease of production, and that they predict whether or not individual words are relearned during anomia treatment.
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Cognitive function prior to systemic therapy and subsequent well-being in older breast cancer survivors: Longitudinal findings from the Thinking and Living with Cancer Study.
Lindsay C. Kobayashi,Harvey J. Cohen,Wanting Zhai,Xingtao Zhou,Brent J. Small,George Luta,Arti Hurria,Judith E. Carroll,Danielle Tometich,Brenna C. McDonald,Deena Graham,Heather S.L. Jim,Paul B. Jacobsen,James C. Root,Andrew J. Saykin,Tim A. Ahles,Jeanne S. Mandelblatt +16 more
TL;DR: To investigate the relationships between self‐reported and objectively measured cognitive function prior to systemic therapy and subsequent well‐being outcomes over 24 months in older breast cancer survivors, data are collected on cognitive function before and after systemic therapy.
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A web-based personalized risk communication and decision-making tool for women with dense breasts: Design and methods of a randomized controlled trial within an integrated health care system.
Sarah Knerr,Karen J. Wernli,Kathleen A. Leppig,Kelly Ehrlich,Amanda L. Graham,David Farrell,Chalanda N. Evans,George Luta,Marc Schwartz,Suzanne C. O'Neill +9 more
TL;DR: Engaged will provide evidence about whether a web-based personalized risk counseling and decision support tool is an effective method for communicating with women about breast density and risk management, and an effective intervention could be disseminated with minimal clinical burden.