Oncology Nurse Talks Pride Month, LGBTQ Disparities

Understanding psychosocial implications, barriers, risks, and impacts.

Linda Bloom, MPA, RN, OCN, highlights how tools such as audio interpretation technology and clear masks can help nurses and patients overcome communication barriers in oncology.

About a quarter of patients with cancer routinely access their electronic health records.

“We’ve had periods of time where things were shut down. We do have telemedicine, that was expanded, but telemedicine doesn’t work for everyone. If you don’t have internet access, if you don’t have the ability to understand the technology….”

A smoking-duration cutoff may be a better measure for determining lung cancer screening eligibility compared with smoking pack-years.

Many Americans with health insurance are not fully covered for frontline procedures to treat lymphedema—a debilitating condition that often affects patients with cancer.