Ragini Kudchadkar, MD, from Winship Cancer Institute, explains what nurses should keep in mind when treating patients with basal cell carcinoma.

Often, patients with basal cell carcinoma will have had prior difficulties with access to care. As such, nurses should be ready to support the patients during this process, with medications, insurance, payments, and paperwork. Side effects from hedgehog inhibitors can be difficult as well: taste loss, weight loss, hair loss and muscle cramping. Nurses should help patients with compliance and encourage them to keep up with supplements to maintain a healthy weight.

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Ragini Kudchadkar, MD, explains what nurses should keep in mind when treating patients with basal cell carcinoma.


Ragini Kudchadkar on Treating Patients with Basal Cell Carcinoma

Ragini Kudchadkar, MD, from Winship Cancer Institute, discusses the challenges nurses face when caring for patients who might not have access to the internet.

Patients with merkel or basal cell carcinoma are usually elderly or without access to the internet. This can make communicating with healthcare professionals especially difficult. The way these patients learn may be different and require different methods. Not every patient has internet access and will be better served with face-to-face education or written information.

Ragini Kudchadkar, MD, explains how nurses can communication with patients with merkel and basal cell carcinoma, who may not have access to the internet.

Ragini Kudchadkar, MD

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Ragini Kudchadkar on Treating Patients with Basal Cell Carcinoma

Ragini Kudchadkar on Communication for Patients Without Internet Access