January/February 2015

Clinicians who treat patients with multiple myeloma have witnessed a sea change in the past 15 years.

The year 2014 was distinguished by dramatic progress in cancer care, perhaps nowhere more so than in the treatment of blood cancers.

Screening for psychosocial distress is an important component of care, and has even been referred to as the "sixth vital sign."

A new diagnosis of acute leukemia can pose an immediate threat to life given the substantial morbidity and mortality associated with the disease.

Over 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.

The patient's daughter had not been at the initial consult and thus had only secondhand information from her father and mother.