Best Practices

Updates to the Clinical Practice Guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) were presented at the NCCN’s 2013 Annual Conference. Read More ›

Some people are so addicted to tobacco that a diagnosis of cancer is not enough to make them quit smoking. Read More ›

Evidence-based guidelines translate research into practice and are intended to reduce variations in cancer care and promote excellence. Read More ›

The cancer patient who develops malglycemia (another word for hyperglycemia experienced by nondiabetic patients)—either due to cancer itself or to drugs patients take for their cancer—is somewhat of a “hot potato.” Read More ›

Oral chemotherapy presents unique issues, including safety and toxicity, and advance planning is essential. Read More ›

Real-life experience translated into a research interest for Fedricker Barber, RN, ANP, AOCNP, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Read More ›

A “group visit” model, led by nurse practitioners, is a feasible and highly satisfactory means of following breast cancer survivors, according to 2 oncology nurse re­searchers from the Duke Cancer Cen­ter’s program. Read More ›

Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are often asked to provide some form of documentation to help certify their patients’ medical conditions. To protect patient privacy, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) significantly restricts both the type of information that can be disclosed and the categories of recipients that can receive it. Read More ›

Educational materials for transplant patients are often too complex for patients to fully comprehend. That’s why oncology nurses at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, decided to produce 2 patient-friendly books that have gotten rave reviews from cancer patients and the whole oncology team.

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With the growing number of cancer survivors, survivorship planning is getting a lot of attention. An important aspect of cancer survivorship is the effects on nurses, who become “secondary survivors,” of the toll cancer takes on patients and families. As such, nurses need to be aware of the possibility of “compassion fatigue.”

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