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Climbing the Mountain Together: Describing the Spiritual Experience of Couples who Have a Child with Cancer
Download2012
The purpose of this study is to provide initial evidence to describe how spirituality is involved in the experience of couples who have a child with cancer. This study used an Interpretive Description (I.D.) method which was designed to study health and illness. The outcome is a description of...
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2011-06-30
The present study evaluates outcomes for individuals to determine how much better a patient’s hearing will be with a bone-anchored device on a headband than with no hearing aid, and how much better a patient’s hearing will be with the bone-anchored device connected to an implant compared to the...
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Evidence-Based Best Practices in Supporting Elementary‐Aged Children with Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Impairments in School Programs
Download2014-06-30
Freeman, Alicia, Bihis, Shantelle
School-aged children with mild-to-moderate hearing impairments are almost always found in inclusive rather than separate educational settings, yet teachers and school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) may lack a full understanding of the educational and speech/language needs of children...
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Fall 2019
The development of efficacious anticancer therapies has significantly improved the prognosis of childhood cancer patients at the price of predisposing survivors to extensive chronic health problems. Although not fatal, reducing treatment-related hearing loss (ototoxicity) among childhood cancer...
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Hearing loss and cognitive-communication test performance of long-term care residents with dementia: Effects of amplification
Download2016-12-01
Ostevik, Amberley, Slaughter, Susan E., Ickert, Carla, Hopper, Tammy, Hodgetts, Bill
Purpose: The study aims were: 1) to explore the relationship between hearing loss and cognitive-communication performance of individuals with dementia, and 2) to determine if hearing loss is accurately identified by long-term care (LTC) staff. The research questions were: 1) What is the effect of...
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2012
Rosychuk, Rhonda J., Torabi, Mahmoud
In this paper, generalized additive mixed models are constructed for the analysis of geographical and temporal variability of cancer ratios. In this class of models, spatially correlated random effects and temporal components are adopted. Spatio-temporal models that use intrinsic conditionally...
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Improving chemotherapeutic regimens by mitigating hearing loss as a limiting side-effect and examining transition metal ions as a ligand for zebrafish Tlr4
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Cancer is often a debilitating disease associated with the uncontrolled growth of cells within an organism. We have made significant strides over the past few decades in treating many cancers, unfortunately, many of these treatments have unfavourable side effects. Cisplatin is a revolutionary...
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Inequalities by Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Position in the Incidence and Survival of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in the United States
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Background: Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer in the United States. The incidence and survival of childhood ALL have been reported to be closely associated with race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position (SEP). However, the relationship between SEP...
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Rational Design and Development of Nanodelivery Systems and Combination Treatments for Overcoming Chemoresistance in Solid Tumors
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The long term goal of this research is to develop drug delivery systems and combination treatments that can overcome chemoresistance in breast cancer. Here, we attempted two different approaches: First, we tried development of polymeric micelles capable of enhanced drug delivery to tumor, while...
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2017-12-15
Sawatzky, Ashley, Van Wolde, Julie, Hodgetts, Bill, Cummine, Jacqueline
The objective of the study is to determine how hearing loss and the use of hearing aids are portrayed in adult or senior populations in the Canadian media, and whether stereotypes exist.