Astrow, Alan

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Cancer worry and empathy moderate the effect of a survivorship-focused intervention on quality of life. Psycho-oncology. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Patient Spirituality as a Component of Supportive Care: Assessment and Intervention. Current treatment options in oncology. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 5
On the disenchantment of medicine: Abraham Joshua Heschel's 1964 address to the American Medical Association. Theoretical medicine and bioethics. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1
Efficacy of a survivorship-focused consultation versus a time-controlled rehabilitation consultation in patients with lymphoma: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Cancer. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
Spiritual Needs and Perception of Quality of Care and Satisfaction With Care in Hematology/Medical Oncology Patients: A Multicultural Assessment. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 18
The Trial of Ascertaining Individual Preferences for Loved Ones' Role in End-of-Life Decisions (TAILORED) Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Surrogate Decision Making. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 10
Protocol for a cluster randomised trial of a communication skills intervention for physicians to facilitate survivorship transition in patients with lymphoma. BMJ open. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
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Patient and caregiver characteristics related to completion of advance directives in terminally ill patients. Palliative & supportive care. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
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Jewish Values, Empathy, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Society. 2015 Article GET IT
Survivorship care planning after participation in communication skills training intervention for a consultation about lymphoma survivorship. Translational behavioral medicine. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin replacing conventional doxorubicin in standard R-CHOP chemotherapy for elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: an open label, single arm, phase II trial. Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 22
Danielle Ofri, M.D., What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine. Society. 2014 Article GET IT
The Achievement of Daniel Callahan. Society. 2014 Article GET IT
A unique and as yet unexplored subset of metastatic colorectal cancer: widespread lymph-node-only recurrence. Journal of gastrointestinal cancer. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
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A Chinese version of the Spiritual Needs Assessment for patients survey instrument. Journal of palliative medicine. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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A piece of my mind. Cancer survivorship and beyond. JAMA. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
Research participants' high expectations of benefit in early-phase oncology trials: are we asking the right question?. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 31
The Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients (SNAP): development and validation of a comprehensive instrument to assess unmet spiritual needs. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 36
Immunogenicity of an inactivated monovalent 2009 influenza A (H1N1) vaccine in patients who have cancer. The oncologist. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
The Palliative Care Information Act. The New England journal of medicine. 2011 Letter GET IT
The Palliative Care Information Act in real life. The New England journal of medicine. 2011 Article GET IT
Times cited: 30
Isolated sternal involvement in breast cancer: is it truly stage IV disease?. Clinical breast cancer. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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The culture of faith and hope: patients' justifications for their high estimations of expected therapeutic benefit when enrolling in early phase oncology trials. Cancer. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 99
Barriers to research participant retention in a longitudinal study of end-of-life decision making. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. 2010 Article GET IT
Development and validation of the Family Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale. Palliative & supportive care. 2009 Conference Paper GET IT
Times cited: 30
Decision-making in patients with advanced cancer compared with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of medical ethics. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
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Family health care decision making and self-efficacy with patients with ALS at the end of life. Palliative & supportive care. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
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Expectations of benefit in early-phase clinical trials: implications for assessing the adequacy of informed consent. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 46
Isn't there someone to blame?. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2008 Article GET IT
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Is failure to meet spiritual needs associated with cancer patients' perceptions of quality of care and their satisfaction with care?. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 181
How would terminally ill patients have others make decisions for them in the event of decisional incapacity? A longitudinal study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 68
When patients lack capacity: the roles that patients with terminal diagnoses would choose for their physicians and loved ones in making medical decisions. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 63
Inter-religious perspectives on hope and limits in cancer treatment. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 13
STUDENTJAMA. Spirituality and the patient-physician relationship. JAMA. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
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A phase II study of liposomal lurtotecan (OSI-211) in patients with topotecan resistant ovarian cancer. Gynecologic oncology. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 61
Fludarabine-related myeloid leukemia. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2003 Letter GET IT
Long-term survival in patients with human immunodeficiency virus-associated small non-cleaved cell lymphoma: the role for short course intensive chemotherapy. Hematological oncology. 2003 Review GET IT
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Religious importance and practices of patients with a life-threatening illness: implications for screening protocols. Applied nursing research : ANR. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
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Religion, spirituality, and health care: social, ethical, and practical considerations. The American journal of medicine. 2001 Academic Article GET IT
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Adjuvant therapy of colon cancer. Seminars in oncology. 2001 Review GET IT
Thrombotic microangiopathy in hiv infected patients and the impact of haart on survival. Blood. 2000 Article
The incompetent self: metamorphosis of a person?. The Hastings Center report. 1998 Letter GET IT
Long-term survival after locally aggressive anorectal melanoma. The American surgeon. 1998 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 16
An alert and incompetent self. The irrelevance of advance directives. The Hastings Center report. 1998 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 8
The Seme/Tenser Article Reviewed. ONCOLOGY. 1997 Article
Fludarabine in chronic leukaemia. Lancet (London, England). 1996 Academic Article GET IT
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Timing of breast cancer surgery: nodes, hormones, and retrospectoscopy. Lancet (London, England). 1994 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 2
ASCO debates high-dose chemotherapy. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Lancet (London, England). 1994 Academic Article GET IT
Rethinking cancer. Lancet (London, England). 1994 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 24
When I can't make you live. The Hastings Center report. 1992 Letter GET IT
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Persistent B19 parvovirus infection in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1): a treatable cause of anemia in AIDS. Annals of internal medicine. 1990 Academic Article GET IT
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The French Revolution and the dilemma of medical training. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 1990 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 2
Lymphocyte toxicity: A comparison of H2O2 and 9-amino-acridine derivatives. Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research. 1985 Article
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia lymphocytes: membrane anomalies and H2O2 vulnerability. Blood cells. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 3
Anxiety--frustration--repressed hostility. An original drawing, painted in gouache, by Boris Artzybasheff. Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. 1980 Academic Article GET IT
Cerebellar control of catecholaminergic activities implications for drug therapy of movement disorders. International journal of neurology. 1979 Academic Article GET IT
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A drawing by Charles Addams (b. 1912). New Haven, Yale Medical Library, Clements C. Fry Collection. Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. 1978 Academic Article GET IT

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Background

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M.D., Yale University School of Medicine 1980
B.A., Yale University 1976

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Alan Astrow

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ala9124@med.cornell.edu

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VIVO Weill Cornell Medical College

Alan Astrow Professor of Clinical Medicine

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education and training

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