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Prognostication in cancer is challenging and inaccurate. C-Reactive Protein (CRP), a cheap and sensitive marker of inflammation may help. This study investigated the relationship between CRP and prognosis in a large cohort of solid tumors with mixed cancer diagnoses and stages. Electronic medical records of 4931 adults with solid tumors who attended the Taussig Cancer Institute from 2006-2012 were reviewed. Demographic and clinical characteristics were recorded. Maximum CRP (mCRP) was identified for each individual. CRP was analysed as a time-dependent, continuous and categorical variable for association with survival. Two thirds of patients had a high mCRP. This was consistently associated with shorter survival, even after correction for time from diagnosis, and when analysed as a continuous or a categorical variable. When mCRP values above 10 mg/L were subcategorized, a higher mCRP was always worse. Even among those with normal values, statistically and clinically significant shorter survival was noted at mCRP levels >5 mg/L. In a large representative cohort of consecutive solid tumor patients the risk of death was clinically and statistically significantly greater with a high mCRP. This was independent of other variables and regardless of statistical method from both dates of diagnosis and test. CRP appeared to be underutilized. Our results support the routine use of CRP as a universal cost-effective independent prognostic indicator in most solid tumors.

Comorbidities (osteoporosis, pathologic fracture) were associated with greater likelihood of supplementation and reduced risk of insufficiency. Multivariable predictors were non Caucasian race, season, primary site, low albumin, and absence of comorbidities, antineoplastic or vitamin D medication (all p<0.01).

  Purpose The objective of this study was to expand the international psychometric validation of the Cancer Communication Assessment Tool for Patients and Families (CCAT-PF) within a sample of Australian cancer patients. Methods Survey data from 181 cancer patient-caregiver dyads ≥ 18 years of age with solid or haematological cancers were analysed (85.4% response rate). Spearman’s rho was used to examine the correlation between CCAT-P and CCAT-F scores and weighted kappa the agreement between them. Exploratory factor analysis using scree plot and Kaiser-Guttman criteria was conducted to evaluate the scale structure. Cronbach’s α and Pearson correlation coefficients were used to measure internal consistency and concurrent validity respectively. Results Mean scores were the following: CCAT-P 46.2 (9.8), CCAT-F 45.7 (9.4), and CCAT-PF 24.1 (8.0). We confirmed the poor concordance between patient and caregiver reporting of items in the CCAT-PF, with all but two items having weighted kappa values < 0.20 and Spearman’s rho < 0.19. We derived a three-factor solution, disclosure , limitation of treatment , and treatment decision making , with reliability ranging from Cronbach’s α  = 0.43–0.53. The CCAT-P and CCAT-F showed strong correlations with preparation for decision-making (CCAT-P: r  = 0.0.92; CCATF: r  = 0.0.93) but were weakly associated with patient/caregiver distress related with having difficult conversations on future care planning. Conclusion Preliminary validation of the CCAT-PF in the Australian setting has shown some similar psychometric properties to previously published studies, further supporting its potential utility as a tool to assess patient-caregiver dyadic communication. Trial registration ACTRN12620001035910 12/10/2020 retrospectively registered.

Bringing this work to fruition entailed wrestling with a paradox across Skidmore's faculty and student populations: while we were committed to enhancing students' abilities to code and decode images and thus create, interrogate, disseminate, and utilize visual knowledge, we also recognized that many faculty felt unequipped to address visual literacy in their pedagogy. [...]we committed to facilitating these skills and approaches, catalyzing faculty engagement with visual texts and literacies across departments and disciplines. VISUAL LITERACY RESOURCES AT SKIDMORE Several campus resources, including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, have provided crucial support for Skidmore's efforts to develop faculty engagement with visual literacy. [...]Skidmore's Geographic Information System (GIS) Center for Interdisciplinary Research, founded in 2005, supports faculty whose research and teaching draws on the ability to visually present, analyze, and interact with data that has spatial and geographical dimensions, including work across a wide variety of disciplines. In addition to working with the program director and affiliate faculty to develop the program's course offerings, the Mellon fellow designed and delivered the first iterations of Introduction to Media Studies, the core course in the minor. Since its inception, the minor has flourished, largely thanks to energetic faculty engagement across the curriculum.

Reviews \"The poster : art, advertising, design, and collecting, 1860s-1900s,\" by Ruth E. Iskin (Dartmouth College Press, 2014). The book seeks to dramatically shift an art historical conception of modernism, in short, by positioning 19th-century advertising posters as worthy of sustained attention; posters--created through the chromolithographic process--not photography or film, signal the advent of modernist visual production. [Revised Publication Abstract]

Ruth E. Iskin’s The Poster: Art, Advertising. Design, and Collecting, 1860s-1900s positions the late-nineteenth-century advertising poster as the progenitor of valued modernist practices typically attached solely to photography and film. Modernist biases separating high art from mass culture account for scholars ignoring posters, however the poster ushered in an innovative reductive graphic style as well as pioneered the notion of multiple originals.