PMID: 30145551Aug 27, 2018Paper

Awareness, understanding, attitude and barriers toward prescribing modern cancer immunotherapies in the Arabian Gulf countries

The Gulf Journal of Oncology
Humaid O Al-ShamsiSadir Alrawi

Abstract

The use of modern immunotherapy has been evolving over the past few years, and various new agents have been developed for new indications at multiple primary sites in oncology. It is important for physicians who are involved in cancer care to be aware and updated about new therapeutic agents and their indications, potential benefits, and side effects. From October to November 2017, we conducted a survey on the awareness, understanding, attitude, and barriers associated with prescribing modern cancer immunotherapies among physicians in the Arabian Gulf countries. The study included practicing physicians who delivered chemotherapy; trainees were not eligible. A total of 460 physicians were contacted and invited to complete an online survey, of which approximately 74.8% did not respond, and 4 (3.4%) were excluded because they had not recently treated patients with cancer. 112 (24.3%) physicians completed the survey (completion rate = 25.2%). An online electronic survey questionnaire was developed via Planet Surveys. The survey was designed with multidisciplinary inputs of the study investigators practicing in the Arabian Gulf countries, piloted, and subsequently revised on the basis of feedback from 10 additional oncologists. The ...Continue Reading

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