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Overview

Carol Estwing Ferrans is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on oncology.

Their recent publications include:

  • Impact of a Genomic Test on Treatment Decision in a Predominantly African American Population With Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer: A Randomized Trial (2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • Advance Care Planning for African American Caregivers of Relatives With Dementias: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (2020, American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®)
  • Prepregnancy Obesity Is Not Associated with Iron Utilization during the Third Trimester (2020, Journal of Nutrition)
  • Gender- and Race-Based Differences in Barriers and Facilitators to Early Detection of Colon Cancer (2020, Journal of Women's Health)
  • Quality of Life and Prolonged Symptoms in Korean Breast Cancer Survivors (2020, Cancer Nursing)

Frequent coauthors with whom Carol Estwing Ferrans has collaborated include:

  • Yamilé Molina
  • Leslie R. Carnahan
  • Eileen G. Collins
  • Alana Steffen
  • Chang Gi Park

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • Cancer Nursing
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • Supportive Care in Cancer

Their expertise spans several subfields of medicine, notably:

  • Oncology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology

The main research topics covered by Carol Estwing Ferrans include:

  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Best Publications

  • [Quality of life index: development and psychometric properties].

    Carol E Ferrans;Marjorie J Powers

  • Measuring stigma in people with HIV: Psychometric assessment of the HIV stigma scale

    Barbara E. Berger;Carol Estwing Ferrans;Felissa R. Lashley

  • Conceptual Model of Health-Related Quality of Life

    Carol Estwing Ferrans;Julie Johnson Zerwic;Jo Ellen Wilbur;Janet L. Larson

  • Psychometric assessment of the Quality of Life Index.

    Carol Estwing Ferrans;Marjorie J. Powers

  • The impact of measuring patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: a systematic review of the literature.

    J. M. Valderas;A. Kotzeva;M. Espallargues;G. Guyatt

  • Development of a quality of life index for patients with cancer.

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  • Development of a conceptual model of quality of life.

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  • Quality of life : conceptual issues

    Carol Estwing Ferrans

  • Understanding African Americans' Views of the Trustworthiness of Physicians

    Elizabeth A. Jacobs;Italia Rolle;Carol Estwing Ferrans;Eric E. Whitaker

  • The quality of life of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome

    Jill S. Anderson;Carol Estwing Ferrans

  • Definitions and conceptual models of quality of life

    Carol Estwing Ferrans

  • Fatigue and physical activity in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

    Eileen Danaher Hacker;Carol E. Ferrans;Ellen Verlen;Farhad Ravandi

  • Topical Capsaicin in the Management of HIV-Associated Peripheral Neuropathy

    Judith A Paice;Carol Estwing Ferrans;Felissa R Lashley;Susan Shott

  • Vitamin D and Depression: Where is all the Sunshine?

    Sue Penckofer;Joanne Kouba;Mary Byrn;Carol Estwing Ferrans

  • Effects of Enhanced External Counterpulsation on Health-Related Quality of Life Continue 12 Months After Treatment: A Substudy of the Multicenter Study of Enhanced External Counterpulsation

    Rohit R. Arora;Tony M. Chou;Diwakar Jain;Bruce Fleishman

  • The psychological impact of living with diabetes: women's day-to-day experiences.

    Sue Penckofer;Carol Estwing Ferrans;Barbara Velsor-Friedrich;Suzanne Savoy

  • Caregiver role stress: when families become providers.

    Bonnie Teschendorf;Carolyn Schwartz;Carol Estwing Ferrans;Ann O'Mara

  • A community effort to reduce the black/white breast cancer mortality disparity in Chicago

    David Ansell;Paula Grabler;Steven Whitman;Carol Ferrans

  • Differences in What Quality-of-Life Instruments Measure

    Carol Estwing Ferrans

  • Breast Cancer Screening Practices Among First-Generation Immigrant Muslim Women

    Memoona Hasnain;Usha Menon;Carol Estwing Ferrans;Laura Szalacha

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