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Clinical Practice Guidelines

ACP issues new colorectal screening guidance

April 19, 2012

New guidelines call for screening at age 50 years in average-risk adults and age 40 years or 10 years younger than age of diagnosis in the youngest affected relative in high-risk adults.

No need for annual Pap test, says USPSTF

Delicia Honen Yard April 13, 2012

Women aged 21 to 65 years should have a Pap smear every 3 years, but those aged 30 to 65 years can wait 5 years if they also have an HPV test.

Distress: Assessing the effects of coping with cancer

Rosemarie A. Tucci, RN, MSN April 11, 2012

A cancer diagnosis can cause high levels of distress. Nurses should assess patients frequently and know how to intervene promptly.

Using ESAs in patients with cancer-related anemia

Sarah Wenger, PharmD; Lisa A. Thompson, PharmD, BCOP February 15, 2012

Although the risks of erythropoietin-stimulating agents can outweigh the benefits, select patients may benefit.

Guidelines reflect changes in radiotherapy for bone metastases

Bryant Furlow, BA October 19, 2011

New ASTRO guidelines for palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases reflect the results of a meta-analysis of 45 studies.

ASTRO issues guideline for palliative radiotherapy in bone metastases

Delicia Honen Yard March 09, 2011

Radiotherapy is a successful and time-efficient means by which to palliate pain and/or prevent the morbidity of bone metastases, according to the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

Lung-cancer classification gets multidisciplinary revision

Delicia Honen Yard February 21, 2011

The newly updated version of an international multidisciplinary classification of lung adenocarcinoma reflects a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis of this disease.

Using comparative effectiveness research to improve the health care system

Tasheema Prince July 08, 2010

Challenges for implementing the findings of comparative effectiveness research (CER) have been highlighted by the November 2009 mammography screening guideline controversy, according to an analysis published in June 2010 Academy Health Reports.

Increased Risk of Recurrence in Subset of Early-Stage HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Patients

Tasheema Prince January 11, 2010

Women with early-stage HER2-positve breast cancer are at significant risk of recurrence, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (2009 Nov 2 [Epub ahead of print].