Astrow, Alan

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Cancer-Associated Thromboembolic Disease and the Evolution of Management. Cardiology in review. 2025 Academic Article GET IT
Spiritual needs and satisfaction with life: an exploration of mediating pathways. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. 2025 Academic Article GET IT
Thinking about Hope in the Care of Cancer Patients. The Hastings Center report. 2025 Academic Article GET IT
Market, Gift, Everyday Ethics, and Emmanuel Levinas in Patient Care. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Psychosocial well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic among women with and without breast cancer. Psycho-oncology. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1
Impact of the COVID-19 breast cancer screening hiatus on clinical stage and racial disparities in New York City. American journal of surgery. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 8
Beyond a Child's Question: Physicians and the Existential Unknown in End-of-Life Care. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Cancer worry and empathy moderate the effect of a survivorship-focused intervention on quality of life. Psycho-oncology. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
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: 15
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: 29
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: 30
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
Times cited: 14
Patient and caregiver characteristics related to completion of advance directives in terminally ill patients. Palliative & supportive care. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 6
Survivorship care planning after participation in communication skills training intervention for a consultation about lymphoma survivorship. Translational behavioral medicine. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 10
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: 41
A Chinese version of the Spiritual Needs Assessment for patients survey instrument. Journal of palliative medicine. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 6
A piece of my mind. Cancer survivorship and beyond. JAMA. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 9
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: 43
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: 42
Immunogenicity of an inactivated monovalent 2009 influenza A (H1N1) vaccine in patients who have cancer. The oncologist. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 19
The Palliative Care Information Act. The New England journal of medicine. 2011 Article GET IT
The Palliative Care Information Act in real life. The New England journal of medicine. 2011 Article GET IT
Times cited: 31
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
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Decision-making in patients with advanced cancer compared with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of medical ethics. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 35
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
Times cited: 39
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: 54
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: 190
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: 86
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: 78
STUDENTJAMA. Spirituality and the patient-physician relationship. JAMA. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 14
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: 64
Fludarabine-related myeloid leukemia. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2003 Article 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 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 6
Religious importance and practices of patients with a life-threatening illness: implications for screening protocols. Applied nursing research : ANR. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 16
Religion, spirituality, and health care: social, ethical, and practical considerations. The American journal of medicine. 2001 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 165
Adjuvant therapy of colon cancer. Seminars in oncology. 2001 Information Resource GET IT
The incompetent self: metamorphosis of a person?. The Hastings Center report. 1998 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 Article 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. 1990 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
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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia lymphocytes: membrane anomalies and H2O2 vulnerability. Blood cells. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
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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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Behavioral and Psychosocial Effects on Study Outcomes in End-Stage Cancer Treatment (BEST End-Stage Cancer Study) awarded by National Cancer Institute Co-Investigator 2022 - 2029
Pilot Trial of a "Divine Intervention" to Improve End-of-Life Cancer Care for Black Patients awarded by National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities Co-Investigator 2023 - 2026
missing activity Co-Investigator 2022 - 2025

Bridge to Better End-of-Life Care for Black Patients with Cancer: Connecting Healthcare Chaplains with Spiritual Care Providers in Faith Communities awarded by National Institute of Nursing Research Co-Principal Investigator 2024 - 2029

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Background

education and training

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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