Editorials

Corn B.W.^PI: Hope: Oncology’s missing breakthrough Annals of Oncology. 23: 2775, 2012. 

Corn B.W., Lee W.R.C: Narrative Oncology, Pract Radiat Oncol 5: 1-2, 2015.                                                                                                                    

Sprung C.L., Avidan A., Corn B.W.: The Terminally Ill: Can We Prevent Suffering? Minerva Anesthesiologica 7: 675- 678, 2017.                   

Corn B.W.: Military metaphors in oncology: Let’s not fight about this, Practical Radiation Oncology 4: 290 291, 2017.                   

Corn B.W.: Narrative Breakthroughs, Practical Radiation Oncology. 9: 291 – 292, 2019.

Sapir E., Corn B.W.: Clinical Trialism and  the Bedrock of Hope, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. In press.                

Primary articles 

Corn B.W.: Ending end-of-life phobia: A prescription for enlightened healthcare reform. Perspective Section, New England Journal of Medicine. Article # 10.1056/NEJMp0909740 [http://healthcarereform.nejm.org]

Corn B.W.: Medical Paternalism: Who knows best? Lancet Oncology, 13: 123 –  124, 2012.

Wexler I.D., Corn B.W.: An existential approach to oncology: Meeting the needs of our patients. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care, 6: 275 – 279, 2012.

Corn B.W.: Cancer of the Heart. Lancet Oncology, 13: 1196 – 1197, 2012.

Corn B.W., Dinkevitch I., Inbar M., Avrahami R.: The heroic role of the caregiver in oncology: A photojournalistic report. The Oncologist, 18: 1144 – 1146, 2013.

Corn B.W.: The acquisition of compassion among physicians: Why is this rite different from all other rites? J Clin Oncol, 32: 1516 – 1517, 2014.

 Bar-Sela, G. Bentur N., Schultz M., Corn B.W.: Spiritual care in hospitals and other healthcare settings in Israel: A profession in the making. Isr Medical Assoc J, 153: 285 – 288, 2014.

Corn B.W. : Breaking Good. JAMA, 311: 1113-4, 2014.

Doron D., Wexler I., Shabtai E., Corn B.W.: End of life decision making: Attitudes of hospital-based physicians caring for terminal patients. Am J Clin Oncol, 37: 597 – 601, 2014.

Tome W., Mehta M., Deshmukh S., Gondi V., Cane C., Corn B.W., Rowley H. Kundapur V.: Memory preservation in patients with brain metastases following hippocampal avoidance whole brain radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology, doi: 10.1016/S0167-8140 (15)30623-X, 2014.

Corn B.W. The gift of medicine. Pract Radiat Oncol 5: 2 – 3, 2015.

Valdivieso M., Corn B.W.. Dancey J.E., Wickerham D.L., Horvath E., Urton A., Cronin W.M. Field E., Lackey E., Blanke C.D.: The globalization of cooperative groups. Seminars in Oncology, 42: 693 – 712, 2015.

Schlocker A.J., Corn B.W.: Proton beam therapy in small nations: Financial irrationality or unique collaborative opportunity?  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 95: 21 – 24, 2016.

Corn B.W.: Tumor Humor? The Oncologist 21: 1538 – 1539, 2016.

Corn B.W., Sharon E.: Mixing metaphors, JAMA Oncology 3: 596, 2017.

Corn B.W., Symon Z.: Radiotherapy in the Middle East: Local and regional targets. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 98: 506 -507, 2017.

Hahn E.M.^C, Ariely D.^C, Tannock I.^C, Fyles A.^C, Corn B.W.: Slogans and donor pages of cancer centers: Do they convey discordant messages?  Lancet Oncology, 19: 447 – 448, 2018.

Beiser E., Soyfer V., Novikov I., Wolf I., Fire G., Corn B.W.: A critical assessment of the quality of radiation therapy in Israel: Time to initiation of treatment of spinal cord compression as an index of efficiency.  J Neurooncol, 143: 329 – 335, 2019.

Corn B.W., Sharon E., Golwyn E.: Emmanuel Levinas: A doctrine for doctors.  The Oncologist, 25: 87-88, 2020.

Corn B.W., Feldman D.B., Shapira L., Steensma D.P., Loprinzi C.L., Bian J. Oncologists’ reluctance to use the terms “hope” and “cure”: A bibliometric analysis from two high-impact journals.  JNCI-Cancer Spectrum, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/jncics/pkaa065.

Corn B.W., Feldman D.B., Wexler I. The science of hope.  Lancet Oncology, In Press, 2020.