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Fighting Health Illiteracy to Prevent Gaps in CareSam didn’t understand the scope or severity of his illness until his nurse navigator intervened.
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Videoconferencing Empowers Distance Caregivers to Be More Involved in CareDCGs experience higher levels of anxiety and mood disturbance compared with local caregivers. On top of dealing with the expected stress of having a loved one who received a diagnosis of cancer, DCGs describe feelings of uncertainty, guilt, anxiety, and stress specifically related to their distance from the patient.
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Caitlin Braithwaite Discusses Nurses' Perceptions of Hand Massage for Patients With CancerCaitlin Braithwaite, BAN, RN, OCN, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, discusses her use of hand massage in patients with cancer, and what her fellow nurses thought of the implementation.
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Financial Toxicity and Patient CareHow does financial toxicity affect patients, and what can nurses do to help?
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Are You Ready for Retirement Before You're Ready?Retirement planning often never goes according to plan, but many oncology nurses are facing a retirement dilemma forced upon them by decisions from the higher levels of their respective health systems.
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Ryan Nipp on the Correlation Between Symptom Burden and Length of Hospital StayRyan Nipp, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the correlation between symptom burden and length of hospital stay for patients with cancer.
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Emerging from the HazeTM: A Multidisciplinary, Psycho-Educational, Cognitive Rehabilitation Program Under InvestigationEmerging from the HazeTM, a cognitive rehabilitation program, is a combination of didactic and experiential content focused on brain health to provide participants with a toolbox of strategies to help them cope with cancer treatment-related cognitive impairment.
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Opinion: Drama Therapy Can Be a Therapeutic Tool for Helping Patients Cope With CancerDrama therapy may be a unique approach to help patients with cancer express themselves and improve their emotional well-being. It can also help health care professionals improve their communication skills.
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Fran Cartwright on the Importance of Pain ManagementFran Cartwright, PhD, RN-BC, AOCN, Senior Director of Nursing, Oncology Services and Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the importance of understanding the many facets of pain management.
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Don't Just Do Something, Stand There: The Power of 'The Pause'Sometimes the most productive thing we can do is to stop.
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Cemiplimab Shows Clinical Benefit for Patients With PD-L1+ NSCLC and Brain MetastasesAt a median follow-up of 33.3 months, the median overall survival was not evaluable with cemiplimab, vs 20.7 months with chemotherapy alone, in this patient subset.
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Parents and Loved Ones: The Unsung HeroesWe need to either do away with the pink or change the color for inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), because it's not at all pink. It's black and blue, purple, and sometimes just plain red.
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Never Too YoungWe were thrilled to cohost the Colorectal Cancer Survivor Panel Lunch & Learn at the recent OMG! Cancer Summit for Young Adults with our friends at Chris4Life.
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The Universal Language of CaringLanguage barriers can mean patients put off preventive screenings, and even treatment, for fear of being misunderstood by their healthcare providers.
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New Toxicity Grading Criteria Help Standardize Management of CAR T-Cell Therapy-Related AEsNewly standardized grading criteria will help to regulate the management of CAR T-cell therapy¬–related toxicities, like cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS).
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Trial To Evaluate Eprenetapopt-Azacytidine Combo in TP53+ MDS Completes EnrollmentA phase 3 trial designed to evaluate eprenetapopt plus azacytidine (Vidaza) in patients with TP53-mutant positive myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) completed full enrollment, according to Aprea Therapeutics, Inc.
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Head and Neck Lymphedema Is More than a Cosmetic ProblemJan Lewin, PhD, section chief of Speech Pathology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses head and neck lymphedema.
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Nickhill Bhakta Discusses Unanswered Questions About Survivors of Childhood CancerNickhill Bhakta, MD, fellow at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, discusses some unanswered questions about late effects of adult survivors of childhood cancer.
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Improving Safety and Quality with Oral ChemotherapyOver the past several years, process improvements in the care of our oncology patients have been implemented that focus on the provision of safe and high quality clinical care and employee safety.
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Tired of Hearing People Say an Oncology Nurse's Job Is Depressing?Some nurses share how they handle such remarks.
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Claire Snyder on Patient-Reported Outcome QuestionnairesClaire Snyder, MHS, PhD, associate professor of medicine and oncology with a joint appointment in health policy and management at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, discusses patient-reported outcome assessments and standardization of questionnaires.
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Dr. Jyoti Patel on Delaying Whole Brain Radiation for Brain MetastasesJyoti Patel, MD, of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, talks about the subject of delaying whole brain radiation for brain metastases.
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Ragini Kudchadkar on Treating Patients with Basal Cell CarcinomaRagini Kudchadkar, MD, explains what nurses should keep in mind when treating patients with basal cell carcinoma.
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Rajni Kannan on Risk Factors for MelanomaRajni Kannan, BS, MS, RN, ANP-BC, discusses some risk factors for melanoma that may not be widely known.
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Structuring a Study of Interpersonal Communication in Breast Cancer NavigationA team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing set out to better understand the interpersonal communication components of breast cancer navigation services.
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Kathleen Wolf on Navigating Difficult Conversations with PatientsKathleen Wolf, RN, BSN, MBA, NEA-BC, discuss how nurses can tackle difficult conversations with patients.
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Colleen O'Leary Describes Chemotherapy SafetyColleen OLeary from James Cancer Hospital Describes Chemotherapy Safety Standards
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Beth Dailey on Helping Nurses Work Smarter, Not HarderBeth Dailey, BSN, RN, OCN, HN-BC, from Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Eastern Regional Medical Center (ERMC), discusses how suggestions from nurses helped a merged clinic staff work smarter.
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Expert Discusses The Value of Combination Treatment in TNBC TreatmentThe future of treating patients with triple-negative breast cancer is bright, but more needs to be done to address mutations early on in the course of the disease.
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Surviving Stage IV Melanoma With Vigilance and HopeIn February 2002, I was diagnosed with stage I melanoma.
