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Integrative care options help pain management

Integrative care options help pain management

The variety of options available to help patients manage their pain can improve quality of life during and after cancer treatment.
Slideshow: Oral mucositis

Slideshow: Oral mucositis

Many drugs commonly used to treat cancer can cause oral mucositis. Learn more about this condition that affects 40% of patients.
Managing side effects of tamoxifen

Managing side effects of tamoxifen

What is the risk for endometrial cancer in a patient taking tamoxifen to reduce recurrence of ER/PR positive breast cancer after treatment?
Bringing radiotherapy into personalized medicine

Bringing radiotherapy into personalized medicine

Researchers are investigating the use of genomics to achieve better cure rates with less morbidity in patients undergoing radiation treatment.
Social media and survivorship: 21st century support

Social media and survivorship: 21st century support

A group at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, uses modern technology to provide survivorship care and counseling to patients.

Latest Articles

Breast Cancer

The link between diabetes and breast cancer

The earliest link between diabetes and cancer was alluded to in the 1930s. However, convincing epidemiological evidence has emerged only recently, proving an association between diabetes and cancer.
 
CancerCare Fact Sheets

Caregiving At the End of Life

This fact sheet provides tips to caregivers on how to provide support when the end of life is near.
 

Gout

The various clinical presentations of this painful form of arthritis result from tissue deposition of monosodium urate crystals. Nurses, learn how to recognize it.
 

Online Ahead of Print

Heartbreak Hill

May 24, 2012

The patient appeared to deny the inevitable course of his disease, and the nurse could only wait for him to reach his point of acceptance.
 

Infusing paclitaxel without an inline filter

May 22, 2012

What are the potential problems associated with infusing paclitaxel without an inline filter?
 

Administering tumor necrosis factor medications

May 22, 2012

Do all tumor necrosis factor medications for rheumatoid arthritis require 1.2 micron filter tubing?
 


Identifying symptom patterns can predict variations over time in oropharyngeal and laryngeal cancers

May 09, 2012

Visual graphical analysis can help predict the way individual patients will experience side effects of treatment over time by identifying patterns.
 

Bedside handoffs transform nursing shift changes into relationship-based care

May 08, 2012

Patient handoffs conducted at bedside support the principles of relationship-based care and benefits both nurses and patients.
 

Visual graphical analysis helps track symptom clusters in lung cancer survivors

May 08, 2012

VGA can help track individual symptom patterns and improve management of symptom clusters in lung cancer patients.
 

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Posttransplant lenalidomide can slow down multiple myeloma

Delicia Honen Yard May 29, 2012

Lenalidomide use after autologous stem-cell transplant significantly improved progression-free and overall survival in patients with myeloma.
 

Melanoma genome study implicates sun and new genetic culprits

Delicia Honen Yard May 28, 2012

Genetic mutations increased along with chronic sun exposure in persons with melanoma, and yet another gene may contribute to disease risk as well.
 

Modified stem cells keep glioblastoma at bay

Delicia Honen Yard May 25, 2012

Three patients with glioblastoma lived longer than predicted after receiving transplants of their own blood stem cells that had been gene-modified.
 

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