Using mobile apps and other new technologies, clinicians can better monitor and help their patients.
Makers of breast implants should supplement their labeling to include a boxed warning about health problems that can arise from the devices, along with a patient decision checklist that highlights those concerns, according to final guidance issued today by the Food and Drug Administration.
Brian Untch, MD, assistant member, Department of Surgery, Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service, Head and Neck Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the watchful waiting approach for patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).
Kerry Nichols, RN, BSN, OCN, explains their nurse navigator-led smoking cessation program.
Ibrutinib has showed clinically meaningful and durable responses in patients with chronic graph-versus-host-disease (cGVHD).
What do patients think about being tested for many genes that may impact their hereditary risk for breast or ovarian cancer, beyond the well-known BRCA mutations?
Margaretta Page, MS, RN, clinical nurse specialist, UCSF School of Medicine, discusses the importance of caring for the caregiver.
Amy Sebastian-Deutsch describes the potential for a collaborative relationship between Oncology Nurse Navigators and community health workers.
Registries, large databases of patient information collected in a systematic, standardized fashion, most often focus on biologic measures, such as pathology, radiology, and laboratory results, to track incidence and prevalence of disease as well as causative factors.
I was diagnosed with stage IV advanced, incurable stomach (gastric) cancer in April 2008 when I was only 40 years old
For patients facing a devastating illness like cancer, there is a need for support from all modalities – professional, family, and friends. A survivor mentor brings value to the mix.
The lack of comprehensive rehabilitation services is a profound source of unnecessary suffering for survivors.
A nurse navigator uses a simple tool to help a forgetful patient overcome a barrier to care.
Early on, oncology nurses knew that cancer wasn’t going to stop for COVID-19, and so neither could they.
After 4 years of living with inflammatory breast cancer, Amy Berman, RN, BS, senior program officer at the John A. Hartford Foundation, said she felt fine during her speech at The American Journal of Managed Care's Patient-Centered Oncology Care meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
Encorafenib plus cetuximab, along with chemotherapy, was linked to antitumor activity and a manageable safety profile in patients with BRAF V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer.
A recent study suggested that intentional weight loss could decrease the risk of endometrial cancer.
The SAMfund and Triage Cancer have partnered to offer financial guidance to cancer patients and caregivers.
A nurse uses her creativity to gain the trust of a patient who was skeptical of an MIBG scan.
To best help your patients, you need to understand what they are going through, and the best way to do that is to have hopeful conversations with them that get them talking.
Terry Pody, MSN, RN, NE-BC, explains how nurses can ensure that a patient goes to the right point of care after they have been discharged.
A new diagnosis of acute leukemia can pose an immediate threat to life given the substantial morbidity and mortality associated with the disease.
Genetic testing has come a long way in cancer care, but not all genetic tests are as defentive as some would have you or your patients beleive.
Robin B. Brenner, RN, CRN, OCN, clinical research nurse, David M. Rubinstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses adverse events associated with Onivyde (irinotecan liposome injection; MM-398) for pancreatic cancer.
Certain racial groups had a higher incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer, according to recent research.