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Deborah K. Mayer discusses the future of survivorship care for patients with cancer.

At the 2017 Cancer Survivorship Symposium, findings from a study were shared which suggested patients with lung cancer do not receive supportive and survivorship care.

Despite recommendations to do so, distribution of survivorship care plans still has not increased for survivors of cancer, according to a recent study.

Online, self-care, coping skills curriculum "Reimagine" helped relieve depression and fatigue in breast cancer survivors.

Despite peripheral neuropathy associated with brentuximab vedotin in patients with lymphoma, patients believe the better outcomes are worth the risk of neuropathy.

A recent study examined factors associated with decreased levels of physical activity following cancer diagnosis and aimed to identify barriers to staying physically active.

Results of a recent study show that patients diagnosed with thyroid cancer before the age of 40 or more likely to be at an increased risk of late effects such as hypertension, heart disease and osteoporosis.

For partners of younger patients with breast cancer, coping strategies can affect their anxiety even after treatment.

Caregivers of patients with GBM have an increased time burden and can affect the quality of life of the caregiver and, potentially, the patient with cancer.

A recent study found that yoga could improve overall quality of life for patients with high grade glioma, as well as their caregivers.

As clinical providers, the ability to meet the science of medicine with its physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial impact it has on patients is often unintentionally overlooked or, at the very least, minimized during the active treatment phase of care; therefore, the purpose and potential benefits that result from integrating palliative care early on in the process is missed.

Massage therapy may offer relief to patients suffering from chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN).

Couple's communication skills training can help couples facilitate important conversations when one partner has advanced cancer,

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

The COMFORT curriculum is an evidence-based communication training course and train-the-trainer program for oncology nurses, who then pass their education on to other healthcare providers.

Palliative care access can be impeded by frontline cancer center office staff members if they do not understand the services.

Patients with newly diagnosed incurable lung and GI cancer saw benefits from early palliative care services.

Coping with the aftermath of cancer and cancer treatment can be especially difficult for survivors of head and neck cancer, according to Ann Marie Flores, PT, PhD, CLT.

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are testing a psychoeducational intervention that they hope will offer relief for sexual problems after treatment.

As the number of older cancer survivors continues to grow, health researchers are looking for ways to combine healthy aging with healthy survivorship. It turns out that a relatively simple solution may be found in a survivor’s own backyard.

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.

While it is known that overweight and obese survivors of breast cancer experience poorer outcomes, gaps remain with regard to risk perception and communication between survivors and health care providers.

Carol Blecher, MS, RN, AOCN, Trinitas Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses using exercise not only as rehabilitation for patients with cancer, but also “prehabilitation”.

Donna Clark, RN, Mitchell Cancer Institute, discusses what it was like to be a patient with endometrial cancer after more than two decades of being an oncology nurse.

Monica Fradkin, RN, MPH, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, discusses improving communication between clinical staff and research staff for patients who are approved for clinical trials.

​Cathy Belt, RN, MSN, AOCN, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses nurses’ role in detecting inherited cancer syndromes.

Erin Noel, BSN, RN, OCN, Baylor Scott & White McClinton Cancer Center, discusses implementation of the “blue dot” system to prevent incorrect coding in patients’ electronic medical record.

Carmela Hoefling, RN, MSN, APN-C, AOCNP, Rutgers Cancer Institue of New Jersey, discusses what oncology nurses can do to identify and treat patients who may be malnourished.

Amita Patel, NPC, Regional Cancer Care Associates, Central Jersey Division, talks about benefits of a multidisciplinary care team and some issues that providers should be aware of when treating patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Carmela Hardy, RN, Regional Cancer Care Associates, Central Jersey Division, talks about how a telephone triage system helps ease patient anxiety in an outpatient chemotherapy setting.