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A tiered level preceptor recognition program offers a cost-effective organizational intervention designed to acknowledge and incentivize the contributions of advanced practice preceptors.

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.

New targeted therapies offer certain patients with non–small cell lung cancer more second-line treatment options.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion must be a centerpiece of nursing recruitment and retention.

Resistance training and walking can be beneficial for patients with multiple myeloma.

Lorazepam was associated with worse survival outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer, while alprazolam was associated with improved outcomes.

Encourage professional development, foster resiliency, and engage nurse leaders to create an environment that not only brings in new nurses, but keeps them.

Children with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma were 10% less likely to relapse following treatment with brentuximab vedotin combination

Real-world data from a retrospective study showed that pembrolizumab combined with the anti-VEGF agent bevacizumab plus oral metronomic cyclophosphamide displayed minimal toxicity in a significant number of patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.

Most patients who receive immunotherapies will experience few, if any, treatment-related adverse effects (AEs). But some patients receiving these treatments can experience serious AEs caused by an overactivation of the immune system and its effects on healthy cells.

Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, BCPS, FAAHPM, and Amy A. Case, MD, FAAHPM, argue that buprenorphine should play a larger role in cancer-related pain management because of its unique pharmacology and consequent safety profile.

Oncology nurses present their experiences treating patients with sotorasib in the phase 1/2 CodeBreaK 100 trial and optimal symptom management strategies to improve patient outcomes with the drug.

Advocacy and opposition continue to grow regarding the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties’ goal of requiring the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree (DNP) for entry-level nurse practitioners.

Longer follow-up data from the phase 1/2 CodeBreaK 100 trial show that patients with KRAS G12C–mutant non–small cell lung cancer experienced improved prolonged overall survival and encouraging response rates with sotorasib.

Experts from Roswell Park developed a dosing guide for the prescription of buprenorphine as treatment for chronic pain.

With education one of the cornerstones of its mission, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce that its Nurse Residency Program has achieved Accreditation with Distinction from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

A longtime champion of education as “a great equalizer” will now lead Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s broad slate of educational programs.

For years, scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center have devoted themselves to research to better understand ovarian cancer.

Whether or not obesity should be considered a risk factor for non-small lung cancer might be determined by how it is measured.

The use of oral contraceptives not only decreases a woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer, but can also decrease the risk of dying from the disease, too, according to recent research.