ONCOLOGY Nurse Edition October 2008, Vol 22 No 11

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Oncology Nurse EditionONCOLOGY Nurse Edition Vol 22 No 11
Volume 22
Issue 11

October 2008, Vol 22 No 11

Main Articles

Psychological Challenges After Cancer: A Guide for Clinical Practice Reviewed in:

The Recklitis et al Article Reviewed

LATE EFFECTS CLINIC: Post-Trauma Symptoms in Cancer Survivors

Graft-Versus-Host Disease: A Complex Long-Term Side Effect of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Reviewed in:

The Barton-Burke et al Article Reviewed

DRUG ESSENTIALS: Small Molecule Multitargeted TKI Therapy

PATIENT INFORMATION: Fatigue in People with Cancer

Articles in this issue
The Recklitis et al Article Reviewed
A Challenge of Survivorship-Healing the Mind and Spirit
ONCOLOGY Nurse Edition October 2008, Vol 22 No 11
Addressing Psychological Challenges After Cancer: A Guide for Clinical Practice
Graft-Versus-Host Disease: A Complex Long-Term Side Effect of Hematopoietic Stem Cell
Post-Trauma Symptoms in Cancer Survivors
Small Molecule Multitargeted TKI Therapy
Commentary (Ezzone)-Graft-Versus-Host Disease: A Complex Long-Term Side Effect of Hematopoietic Stem Cell
La fatiga en personas con cáncer
Fatigue in People With Cancer
Recent Videos
Breast cancer care providers make it a goal to manage the adverse effects that patients with breast cancer experience to minimize the burden of treatment.
Social workers and case managers may have access to institutional- or hospital-level grants that can reduce financial toxicity for patients undergoing cancer therapy.
Genetic backgrounds and ancestry may hold clues for better understanding pancreatic cancer, which may subsequently mitigate different disparities.
Factors like genetic mutations and smoking may represent red flags in pancreatic cancer detection, said Jose G. Trevino, II, MD, FACS.
Thomas Hope, MD, believes that an NRC initiative to update infiltration guidelines may organically address concerns that H.R. 2541 outlines.
Insurance and distance to a tertiary cancer center were 2 barriers to receiving high-quality breast cancer care, according to Rachel Greenup, MD, MPH.
4 experts are featured in this series.
4 experts are featured in this series.
Thomas Hope, MD, had not observed an adverse effect attributable to an infiltration across more than a decade of administering nuclear agents at UCSF.
Numerous clinical trials vindicating the addition of immunotherapy to first-line chemotherapy in SCLC have emerged over the last several years.
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