AlanBennettAstrowMD

PubMed

• 117 citations
  The culture of faith and hope: patients' justifications for their high estimations of expected therapeutic benefit when enrolling in early phase oncology trials.
  Daniel P. Sulmasy, Alan B. Astrow, M. Kai He, Damon M. Seils, Neal J. Meropol
  Cancer. 2010-08-01
• 44 citations
  The Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients (SNAP): Development and Validation of a Comprehensive Instrument to Assess Unmet Spiritual Needs
  Rashmi K. Sharma, Alan B. Astrow, Kenneth Texeira, Daniel P. Sulmasy
  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2012-07-01
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  A Chinese Version of the Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients Survey Instrument
  Alan B. Astrow, Rashmi K. Sharma, Yiwu Huang, Yiquing Xu, Daniel P. Sulmasy
  Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2012-12-03

Journal Articles

• Book review of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2016
• Jewish Values, Empathy, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2015
• Book review of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2014
• The Achievement of Daniel Callahan  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2014
• Book review of Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2013
• Is Medicine a Spiritual Vocation?  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2013
• Getting the Psychosocial Support You Need  
  Astrow AB, Coping with Cancer, 1/1/2012
• Book review of Merger Games: The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the Rise and Fall of the Allegheny Healthcare System  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2012
• The Palliative Care Information Act Authors reply  
  Astrow AB and Popp B, N Engl J Med, 1/1/2011
• Barriers to Research Participant Retention in a Longitudinal Study of End of Life Decision Making  
  Schneider S., Kub J., Hughes MT, Texeira K., Sulmasy D, Astrow A, Thompson RE Clawson L., Nolan MT, Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 1/1/2010
• The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer  
  Astrow AB, Psycho-Oncology, 1/1/2009
• Discussing Diagnosis and Prognosis in Cancer Patients  
  Nakka, SS, Miller D, Astrow AB, Primary Psychiatry, 1/1/2008
• A phase II study of liposomal lurtotecan (OSI-211) in patients with topotecan resistant ovarian cancer  
  Seiden MV, Muggia F, Astrow A, Matulonis U, Campos S, Roche M, Sivret J, Rusk Barrett E, Gynecologic Oncology, 1/1/2004
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers  
  Astrow AB, N Engl J Med, 1/18/2003
• Spiritual Aspects of Health Care Go Beyond Medicine  
  Astrow AB, Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology, 1/1/2002
• Being Brett  
  Astrow AB, The Lancet, 1/3/1997
• The Timing of Breast Cancer Surgery During the Menstrual Cycle  
  Astrow AB, Review of Senie/Tenser article, Oncology, 1/1/1997
• Book review of Wrong Medicine, Doctors, Patients and Futile Treatment  
  Astrow AB, The Lancet, 1/2/1996
• Book review of Theological Voices in Medical Ethics  
  Astrow AB, The New England Journal of Medicine, 1/1/1995
• Book review of Hospital: An Oral History of Cook County Hospital  
  Astrow AB, The Lancet, 1/1/1995
• Book review of The Cancer Dictionary  
  Astrow AB, Journal of Long Term Home Health Care, 1/1/1994
• Book review of The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America  
  Astrow AB, The New England Journal of Medicine, 1/1/1993
• Book review of The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine  
  Astrow AB, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1/1/1993
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Books/Book Chapters

• Conversations in Palliatiave Care 
  Chapter: Spirituality 
  Astrow AB, Garvin G, Smith EEditors: Panke,J. T. & Coyne, P..Pohl Publishing, Pensacola, FLEdition 3rd,2011
• American Society of Clinical Oncology 2009 Educational Book, 45th Annual Meeting 
  Chapter: Approaching the spiritual and religious concerns of the patient with cancer: Creating an environment for dialogue regarding spiritual concerns 
  Astrow ABEditors: Ramaswamy Govindan.American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, VA2009
• Conversations in Palliative Care 
  Chapter: Spirituality 
  Astrow AB, Garvin G, Smith EEditors: Panke, J. T. & Coyne, P..Pohl Publishing, Pensacola, FL2004
• Facing Death 
  Chapter: Thoughts on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide 
  Astrow ABEditors: Howard Spiro.Yale University Press1996
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Abstracts/Posters

• Development and Validation of a Spiritual Needs Assessment Tool in Multiple Languages
  Astrow AB, Sharma RS, Kwok GK, Sulmasy DP, 2nd annual Conference on Religion and Medicine, University of Chicago, 1/1/2013
• Phase II study of RCHOP with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (DRCOP) for patients older than age 60 with untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
  Rodriguez MA, Durand J, Astrow AB, Bury MJ, Fanale MA, Hagemeister FB, Huang X, McLaughlin P, Neelapu SS, Pro B, Kwak Lw, Fayd L, Romaguea Jew, Younes A, Fisch M, ASCO Annual Meeting, 1/1/2011
• The culture of faith and hope: subjects’ justifications for their high estimations of expected benefit in early phase oncology trials
  Sulmasy DP, Astrow AB, He MK, Seils DM, Meropol NJ, Weinfurt KP, Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, 1/13/2009
• The Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients Survey (SNAPS): development and initial psychometric testing
  Sulmasy DP, Texeira K, Hantman I, Astrow AB, Society of General Medicine Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, 1/13/2009
• Outcome of Isolated Recurrence in Breast Cancer
  Astrow AB, Desani J, Sonnenschine M, Patsiornik Y, Huang Y, Klein P, Citron M, Reichman B, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 1/1/2009
• Outcome of Isolated Recurrence in Breast Cancer
  Astrow AB, Desani J, Sonnenschine M, Patsiornik Y, Huang Y, Klein P, Citron M, Reichman B, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 1/1/2009
• Understanding patient expectations in early-phase clinical oncology trials
  Weinfurt KP, Seils DM, Compton KL, Sulmasy DP, Astrow AB, Meropol NJ, 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making; Society for General Internal Medicine 30th Annual Meeting, 2006; Toronto, Ontario, 2007, 1/1/2007
• Patient wishes and physician inquiries regarding spiritual needs in an urban cancer center
  Astrow AB, Wexler A, Texeira K, Sulmasy DP, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 1/1/2006
• Maimonides the Physician: A Model for our Time?
  Astrow AB, Medicine and Religion, Boston, MA, 1/7/2005
• Discussing End-of-Life Treatment Options: Advanced Cancer versus Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  Astrow AB, Sood JR, Nolan MT, Terry PB, Hughes MT, Kub J, Sulmasy DP, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 1/1/2005
• Decision control preferences in patients with advanced cancer
  Astrow AB, Narendra DP, Sood JR, Nolan MT, Thompson R, Sulmasy P, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Proc. ASCO, 1/1/2004
• Long Term Survival in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Associated Small Non-Cleaved Lymphoma
  Astrow AB, Tarabay G, Li Z, Cook W, Coty P, Gallinson D, Cho D, Halperin I, Kempin S, ASH Annual Meeting, 1/1/2002
• Lymphocyte Toxicity: A Comparison of H202 and 9-Aminoacridine Derivatives
  Astrow AB, Kanganis D, Stahl R, Silber R, Proc. AACR, 1/1/1985
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Lectures

• Inaugural National Conference: Medicine and Religion 
  University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois - 5/23/2012
• Splenectomy is an Effective Treatment for HIV-associated Castleman’s Disease, Roundtable Discussion 
  National Cancer Institute - 1/1/2003

Other

• Fixing Medical Records, Letter to the Sunday Book Review 
  Astrow AB, New York Times
  1/23/2014
• Lincoln’s Pragmatism. Letter to Sunday Book Review 
  Astrow AB, New York Times
  1/3/2013
• Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient, DVD and Teaching Guide 
  Astrow AB and Sulmasy DP
  1/1/2004
• Spirituality, Religion, and Medical Care: A Response to Neil E. Scheurich, E-letter 
  Astrow AB. and Jansen LA, Academic Medicine
  1/16/2003
• Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient 
  Astrow AB, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine
  http://yjhm.yale.edu/archives/spirit2003/spiritintro2003.htm
  1/1/2003
• Doctors are Human, Letter 
  Astrow AB, The New York Times
  1/26/1995
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