Advanced Practice Providers

Ellen Miller, MSN, FNP-BC, a nurse practitioner who specializes in survivorship care, underscores what conversations surrounding fertility and pregnancy may look like after radiation.

Patients with breast cancer may be at risk for more intense cognitive impairment following treatment with chemotherapy plus endocrine therapy.

Camizestrant doubled progression-free survival compared with fulvestrant in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Patients with early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer who received both adjuvant ado-trastuzumab emtansine and concurrent radiotherapy did not experience a significant drop in ejection fraction or global longitudinal strain.

Black mulberry extract may help patients manage oral mucositis, dry mouth, and weight gain, while receiving oral cancer medications.

The FDA has approved updated labeling for capecitabine under Project Renewal, an Oncology Center of Excellence initiative aimed at updating labeling information for certain older oncology drugs.

Capivasertib plus fulvestrant improved progression-free survival in patients who have hormone-receptor–positive/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

CAR T-cell therapy represents a viable treatment option for many patients, but there are potentially serious adverse events.

In this episode of "The Vitals," Heather Jackson, PhD, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP, shares her experience helping a patient reduce their opioid use through acupuncture treatments.

An observational study of 2450 patients with stage III colon cancer identified key factors that may increase a patient’s risk of oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy.

Patients who receive high cumulative doses of triple intrathecal therapy may be at an increased risk of neurocognitive problems.

Rogaratinib did not display a significant benefit over chemotherapy in patients with FGFR mutated bladder cancer, but the targeted treatment did generate encouraging responses among those with FGFR3 DNA alterations.

A quality improvement project improved the time to molecular testing for patients with newly diagnosed, metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

The rate of severe radiation dermatitis was reduced with the use of Mepital Film in patients with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy.

Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer and brain metastases experienced a median progression-free survival of 8 months and a median overall survival of 14 months with HER2-targeted therapy.

Following CAR T-cell therapy, the onset of hypophosphatemia may represent a biomarker for immune effector cell–associated neurotoxicity syndrome incidence and severity.

A regimen of cediranib and olaparib improved radiographic progression-free survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer compared with olaparib monotherapy. However, the rate of dose reductions was doubled with the combination.

A presentation at the 2022 ESMO Congress found that xevinapant plus chemoradiotherapy decreased the risk of death by twice that of placebo for patients with unresectable, locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Concurrent treatment with reirradiation and bevacizumab prolonged progression-free survival, but not overall survival, in patients with recurrent glioblastoma.

Sri Kota, MSN, BA, RN, OCN, unpacks data from the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 trial and highlights what nurses should know about sacituzumab govitecan for patients with advanced hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Olaparib is an oral drug manufactured in 150-mg and 100-mg tablets. Olaparib is taken by mouth, twice daily. It can be taken without or without food.

Patients with heavily pretreated clear cell gynecologic cancer achieved encouraging responses with single-agent pembrolizumab.

The overall survival benefit associated with pembrolizumab for patients with head and neck cancer continued to be observed at a 4-year follow-up of the KEYNOTE-048 trial.

HER2-directed antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) play an important role in the treatment of breast and gastric cancer.

A 5-year follow-up of the COLOMBUS trial showed that encorafenib plus binimetinib continued to provide clinical benefit for patients with melanoma harboring a BRAF V600 mutation.

An analysis of patient-reported outcomes showed that patients with advanced ovarian cancer experienced fewer abdominal or gastrointestinal toxicities with mirvetuximab soravtansine than with chemotherapy.

Advanced practice providers are the future of survivorship care because of the tremendous value they offer to the practice and its patients.

Optimal treatment sequencing for patients with BRAF-mutated melanoma involves frontline immunotherapy following by BRAF/MEK inhibition, according to investigators.

At the 2022 ASCO Quality Care Symposium, an adverse event analysis showed that abemaciclib has a manageable safety profile and that dose reductions may be a key aspect of appropriate symptom management.

Structured preceptorships promote competence, confidence, and job satisfaction in new oncology nurse practitioners.