Advanced Practice Providers

Ibrutinib is now an FDA-approved treatment for patients aged 1 year or older who have chronic graft-versus-host-disease. Prescription warnings include bleeding and cardiac problems, infections, high blood pressure, a decrease in blood cell count, and tumor lysis syndrome.

At the international congress on the Future of Breast Cancer West, Hope S. Rugo highlighted the predictive value of residual cancer burden scoring in ongoing research efforts to tailor triple-negative breast cancer treatments.

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, discusses ongoing research with oral SERDs, such as elacestrant, and highlights what these agents could represent for patients with estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer.

Leslie Smith, DNP, RN, APRN-CNS, BMTCN, AOCNS, discusses new therapies and treatment selection in the lymphoma landscape.

Most patients who receive immunotherapies will experience few, if any, treatment-related adverse effects (AEs). But some patients receiving these treatments can experience serious AEs caused by an overactivation of the immune system and its effects on healthy cells.

Patients with treatment-naive extensive-stage small cell lung cancer showed encouraging clinical responses with pembrolizumab and etoposide after multiple years of follow-up.

The growing availability of biomarkers has led to the advent of more targeted therapies such as the antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki, ado-trastuzumab emtansine, and sacituzumab govitecan-hziy.

Sherry Adkins, MSN, ANP-C, discusses some key considerations in ensuring quality patient care after they have completed CAR T-cell therapy at a specialized center.

In a presentation at the 6th Annual School of Nursing Oncology™, Laura Wood, RN, MSN, OCN, highlights key nurse takeaways with VEGF TKI/immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma.

At the 6th Annual SONO meeting, Beth Sandy, MSN, CRNP, reviewed available treatment options for patients with identified driver mutations in non–small cell lung cancer.

Sarah Donahue, MPH, NP, AOCNP, explains the trial design of the pivotal DESTINY-Breast04 trial and discusses how the promising performance of trastuzumab deruxtecan might impact patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-low breast cancer.

Beth Sandy, MSN, CRNP, discusses some of the challenges that may be associated with molecular testing, and how oncology nurses can help play a role in ensuring that the reports are received.

Kelley A. Rone, DNP, RN, AGNP-c, discusses the advantages associated with immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancers.

Gabriella Magarelli, MSN, ACNP-BC, AOCNP, reflects on lessons learned caring for patients with cancer and COVID-19.

An analysis of patient-reported outcomes from the phase 3, INTRIGUE trial (NCT03673501) showed that ripretinib had a more tolerable safety profile than sunitinib in treating patients with advanced GIST tumors.

A combined analysis of 3 real-world studies assessing the use of ixazomib/lenalidomide/dexamethasone (IRd) in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma found the patient outcomes to be consistent with original phase 3 findings.

Pediatric oncology nurses and social workers routinely collaborate not only in the biopsychosocial assessment of families’ psychosocial needs and distress, but in developing interventions that can improve a patient’s and family’s quality of life while in pediatric cancer treatment and in survivorship.

Brexucabtagene autoleucel, a CAR T-cell therapy approved in 2021 for relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, showed efficacious results and promising safety data at 2-year follow-up.

Arndt Vogel, MD, PhD, discusses a post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 HIMALAYA trial which found tremelimumab plus durvalumab to be superior to sorafenib in improving overall survival.

Ribociclib was associated with significantly favorable symptom-related quality of life scores compared with abemaciclib among women with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Understanding various clot characteristics and bleeding risk factors can help providers carefully manage acute venous thromboembolism.

Patients receiving bevacizumab plus olaparib to treat newly diagnosed ovarian cancer experienced significantly longer time without signs of toxicity compared with placebo.

Nivolumab, whether in combination with ipilimumab or as a monotherapy, was associated with improved overall survival, progression-free survival, and melanoma-specific survival, compared with ipilimumab in advanced melanoma.

Patients with breast cancer who experience adjuvant hormone therapy (AHT)-related hot flashes and are treated for hot flashes at the beginning of therapy had worse outcomes than those who did not.

A subgroup analysis found that the addition of durvalumab to chemotherapy resulted in maintained overall survival benefit in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer, regardless of primary tumor location.

Ilene Galinsky, BSN, MSN, ANP-C, underscores effective symptom management strategies when prescribing venetoclax to patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Laura J. Zitella, MS, RN, ACNP-BC, AOCN, presents a case study of a patient receiving chemotherapy for osteosarcoma who begins experiencing shortness of breath.

Ilene Galinsky, BSN, MSN, ANP-C, discusses the evolution of targeted therapy in acute myeloid leukemia treatment, and how venetoclax plays into the treatment paradigm.