Katie Hay

Palliative care can be beneficial to patients treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Capecitabine, the chemotherapy agent, may cause patients to lose their fingerprints, according to a recent study from the Netherlands.

The nurses that helped Taylor Hendrix during her personal cancer journey led her to pursue a career in oncology nursing.

Deborah Derman used her personal losses and professional experiences to create the new book Colors of Loss and Healing: An Adult Coloring Book for Getting Through Tough Times to help people move forward in their lives.

A new study has found that overall survival is significantly worse for people of color who are diagnosed with melanoma, even though whites are diagnosed with this deadliest form of skin cancer at a higher rate.

Research is pointing to a connection between cisplatin-based chemotherapy and hearing loss in testicular cancer survivors across a wide age range, and the findings may have implications for survivors of other tumors treated with cisplatin as well.

The health benefits of yoga are many, but in the oncology setting, studies of the approach have focused primarily on women with breast cancer. However, a small, first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is exploring how yoga may also improve treatment-related symptoms in men who are undergoing radiotherapy for their prostate cancer. And the results, thus far, are promising.

Caregivers of patients with advanced cancer often put their own needs aside to care for a loved one, but working to help improve this is Nick Dionne-Odom, a PhD, MSN, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing.

Short-term group acupuncture is valuable and cost-effective for patients with breast cancer, though it may not be the first form of therapy that comes to mind when trying to manage cancer pain.

In working with patients who have cancer, oncology nurses are administering hazardous drugs every day. While some take precaution by using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), others take a much riskier approach that could be harmful to not only themselves, but also to the people around them.

The topic of sex is often difficult to discuss. Yet for many patients with cancer and survivors, sexual dysfunction is a widespread and unfortunate reality of their cancer treatment.

The FDA is getting praise from oncology groups for its landmark decision to regulate electronic cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco, pipe tobacco, and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS).

In an effort to help ensure that patients are taking their oral anticancer medications and refilling their prescriptions, a team of four nurses and a physician from NYU Langone’s Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center integrated a novel tracking workflow documentation system into the electronic health record.

Patients with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy infusion are likely feeling uncomfortable, stressed, and anxious, but a brief session of hand massage may be a relatively simple way to put them more at ease.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate, but that doesn’t mean the healthcare system won’t. This proves to be even more true for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.