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At the 12th Annual New Orleans Summer Cancer Meeting, Jessica MacIntyre, ARNP, NP-C, AOCNP, Director, Clinical Operations, Office of the Director, and Co-Leader, Oncology Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, discussed some of the most impactful supportive care abstracts from the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, as well as the potential implications of this new research in the field of nursing. Read More ›

The November issue of The Oncology Nurse-APN/PA (TON) is full of important news and updates for oncology nurses. Read More ›

Patients’ perceptions of worrisome chemotherapy-related side effects have evolved since the 1980s and 1990s, according to a recent survey of women with breast and ovarian cancers that was reported at the 2017 European Society for Medical Oncology Congress. Read More ›

Central obesity increases the risk for developing cancer in postmenopausal women more than high body mass index (BMI) and fat percentage, according to a study reported at the 2017 European Society for Medical Oncology Congress. Read More ›

For patients with metastatic hormone-naïve prostate cancer, practice-changing results from the LATITUDE clinical trial showed that the use of abiraterone plus low-dose prednisone in addition to androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) delayed disease progression by an average of 18 months, and reduced the risk for death by 38%, when compared with ADT alone. Read More ›

“Our study shows that women who received modern breast radiation therapy overwhelmingly found the treatment experience far better than expected,” said Susan McCloskey, MD, MSHS, at the 2017 American Society for Radiation Oncology annual meeting. Read More ›

Larotrectinib (LOXO-101), an investigational agent that targets tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) fusions, has demonstrated excellent, consistent, and durable antitumor activity in a range of tumor types in adults and children, reported lead investigator David M. Hyman, MD, Chief, Early Drug Development Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, at the 2017 ASCO annual meeting. Read More ›

It is well known that cancer treatment is often associated with serious adverse side effects, but conventional care is often focused on cure and survival, rather than on a holistic approach to patient care, suggests Nerissa Wood, BSN, RN, OCN, Director, Tulane Comprehensive Cancer Clinic, New Orleans, LA. Read More ›

The optimal use of new agents for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is still being defined, according to Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, Medical Director, Quality Informatics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York City. Read More ›