Cancer recurrence

Medline:
"Recurrence"[Mesh] OR "Neoplasm Recurrence, Local"[Mesh] OR "Follow-Up Studies"[Mesh]

recurr*[tiab] OR relaps*[tiab] OR "follow up"[tiab] OR surveill*[tiab] OR monitoring[tiab] OR monitored[tiab]

In EMBASE, this is really tricky!

If you type in: recurrence, it will give you the EMTREE heading "recurrent disease"

But there are a whole bunch more!

exp recurrent disease/ or exp tumor recurrence/ or exp cancer recurrence/ or exp biochemical recurrence/ or exp relapse/ or exp follow up/

Ductal Breast Cancer

Watch out for this one! I was asked to do a search on "Breast Cancer of the ductal type", and when I typed those words into the Ovid Medline interface, they mapped to Breast Neoplasms and Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast.

I figured that the second one was what I wanted. However, perhaps there was a type of ductal breast cancer that wasn't a carcinoma? I thought a test might be useful.

(exp Breast Neoplasms/ and ductal.ti.) not exp Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/

1696 results !!!!!

I looked through the first few results, and they were all relevant and recent. No reasonable explanation whatsoever.

After a little further analysis from PubMed Reminer (a website of surpassing usefulness and awesomeness), I ended up with the following search:

exp Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/ or (exp Breast Neoplasms/ and (exp Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/ or exp Carcinoma, Ductal))

PsycInfo: health professionals

PsycInfo only explodes down one level, so here is the full manual explosion of health professionals:

DE "Health Personnel" OR DE "Allied Health Personnel" OR DE "Occupational Therapists" OR DE "Physical Therapists" OR DE "Psychiatric Aides" OR DE "Speech Therapists" OR DE "Medical Personnel" OR DE "Dentists" OR DE "Military Medical Personnel" OR DE "Nurses" OR DE "Optometrists" OR DE "Pharmacists" OR DE "Physical Therapists" OR DE "Physicians" OR DE "Psychiatric Hospital Staff" OR DE "Mental Health Personnel" OR DE "Clinical Psychologists" OR DE "Psychiatric Hospital Staff" OR DE "Psychiatric Nurses" OR DE "Psychiatric Social Workers" OR DE "Psychiatrists" OR DE "Psychotherapists" OR DE "School Psychologists" OR DE "Psychiatric Nurses" OR DE "Family Physicians" OR DE "General Practitioners" OR DE "Gynecologists" OR DE "Internists" OR DE "Neurologists" OR DE "Obstetricians" OR DE "Pathologists" OR DE "Pediatricians" OR DE "Psychiatrists" OR DE "Surgeons" OR DE "Psychiatric Aides" OR DE "Hypnotherapists" OR DE "Psychoanalysts"

If useful, there are also:


DE "Health Personnel Attitudes" OR DE "Therapist Attitudes" OR DE "Therapist Attitudes" OR DE "Psychotherapist Attitudes"

Group Therapy

This one is a real pain because there are so many other Mesh using the word group, but in completely different ways.

"Psychotherapy, Group"[Mesh] OR "Peer Group"[Mesh] OR "Group Processes"[Mesh] OR "Group Structure"[Mesh] OR "Self-Help Groups"[Mesh] OR "Focus Groups"[Mesh] OR ("Social Support"[Mesh] AND group*[tiab])

PsycInfo:

DE "Group Psychotherapy" OR DE "Encounter Group Therapy" OR DE "Marathon Group Therapy" OR DE "Therapeutic Community" OR DE "Group Dynamics" OR DE "Group Cohesion" OR DE "Group Development" OR DE "Group Discussion" OR DE "Group Participation" OR DE "Group Performance" OR DE "Intergroup Dynamics" OR DE "Social Group Work" OR DE "Support Groups" OR DE "Twelve Step Programs" OR DE "Alcoholics Anonymous" OR (DE "Social Support" AND (TI group* OR AB group*))

Spondylolisthesis

"Spondylolisthesis"[Mesh] is pretty straightforward, however, if you need to do any keywording:

spondylolisthes*[tiab] or spondylisthes*[tiab] or spondyloptos*[tiab] or anterolisthes*[tiab] or retrolisthes*[tiab]

Ovid:
exp Spondylolisthesis/

(spondylolisthes* or spondylisthes* or spondyloptos* or anterolisthes* or retrolisthes*).ti,ab.

And this is one of those rare occurrences where the Medline and EMBASE terms are exactly the same!

Hormone Blockade (for cancer treatment)

This terminology is particularly tricky, because some of the treatments that they use to block hormones are - those hormones! But some are not!

Feeling croggled? I don't blame you! Here's some MeSH to help you out...

"Hormone Antagonists"[Mesh] OR "Hormone Antagonists"[Pharmacological Action] OR "Antineoplastic Agents, Hormoneal"[Mesh] OR "Antineoplastic Agents, Hormoneal"[Pharmacological Action]

And some keywords:
estrogen receptor block*[tiab] OR selective estrogen receptor modulat*[tiab] OR serm*[tiab] OR tamoxifen[tiab] OR fulvestrant[tiab] OR aromatase inhibit*[tiab] OR letrozole[tiab] OR anastrozole[tiab] OR exemestane[tiab] OR luteinizing hormone releasing hormone agonist*[tiab] OR goserelin[tiab] OR leuprolide[tiab] OR buserelin[tiab] OR toremifene[tiab]

These keywords were brought to you by the Canadian Cancer Society website and the American Cancer Society website. Thanks for 'splaining...


EMBASE has:

exp hormone antagonist/ or exp "antineoplastic hormone agonists and antagonists"/

Neoadjuvant therapy

This is treatment that they do before the actual treatment for cancer.

Medline has the term "Neoadjuvant Therapy", but it's relatively new, and also with a topic like this you may wish to search the in process articles:

neoadjuvan*[tiab] OR neo-adjuvan*[tiab] OR pretreat*[tiab] OR pre-treat*[tiab]


EMBASE also has exp neoadjuvant therapy/