Nurse practitioners and physician assistants can advocate to play a number of roles in oncology research, including primary investigators.
Patients treated with ide-cel, Abecma for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma affecting the central nervous system had similar outcomes to matched patients with non-CNS multiple myeloma.
Patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer experienced increase rPFS and other efficacy end points with darolutamide plus ADT.
A lung cancer screening navigator offers their perspective on shared decision-making.
The amount of CDK4/6-targeting treatment options available for patients with HR-positive breast cancer allows providers to personalize treatment.
Clinical trials can provide patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms expanded treatment options.
Difficult conversations in cancer pain management should include core values and principles, setting realistic expectations, and building the patient-client relationship from the very beginning.
Closing their discussion, the panel shares advice for new nurse practitioners caring for patients who have endometrial cancer.
Experts discuss optimizing renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treatment by integrating patient-reported outcomes and clinician insights.
Patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer should be consistently tested for ESR1 mutations to inform next lines of therapy.
“We've had to develop a unique process and a unique cryo buffer that allows us to freeze natural killer cells and recover greater than 90% of those cells. So, the new GDA-201 cryo-preserved is now going to be an off-the-shelf product and we're going to reinstitute a multicenter study in lymphoma to include both histologies of follicular lymphoma and diffuse large B cell lymphoma.”
Dr Mohan engages with Dr Mann, Nurse Brigle, Nurse Distaso, and Dr Nadeem to explore challenges in the referral process for bispecific therapy, including local health care barriers, and strategies for ensuring consistent patient education and support when care is shared between community and academic centers.
The 3 fundamental coping mechanisms patients should have embedded into their care plan are self-compassion, gratitude, and kindness.
Oncology nurses and APPs can help reduce discrimination faced by patients with cancer who are members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Adolescent and young adult survivors of cancer face increased substance use risks due to developmental delays, limited support, and coping mechanisms, necessitating targeted prevention.
As prognoses continue to improve, concerns about treatment-associated fertility risks are becoming more prevalent and are often a topic of discussion between patients and their nurses or nurse practitioners.
Experts share insights on standard work-up and staging practices for a patient with newly diagnosed bladder cancer.
Courtney Arn, APRN-CNP, a nurse practitioner comments on the recent approval of pembrolizumab for patients with MSI-H/dMMR advanced endometrial carcinoma.