An App for Intubated Cancer Patients: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
A nurse develops a tablet app that helps intubated patients communicate with their nurses, caregivers, and families.
Issues In Cancer Survivorship
Expectations of Chemotherapy Side Effects Influence Patients’ Experiences During Breast Cancer Treatment
Recent studies indicate that adverse side effects can result from factors unrelated to the pharmacologic agent, but rather from other factors.
Increasing Dietary Omega-3 Intake After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Improves Survival
Lifestyle and dietary measures for preventing colorectal cancer are extensively studied; however, in this study, researchers looked at a dietary measure that improved survival for patients after diagnosis.
How Can We Have a Cancer Cure Moonshot if We’re Short of Fuel?
Cancer research relies of patients with cancer to participate in clinical trials. However, many patients cite various fears and misconceptions — some supported by physicians – as reasons for why they decline to participate in clinical trials.
Socioeconomic Benefits of Marriage Improve Survival Among Married Patients
A recent study confirms the benefits of marriage on patients with cancer, including socioeconomic status, psychosocial support, and a higher regard for health-related self care.
The Samfund: Helping Young Adult Patients Navigate the Financial Impact of Cancer Care
The Samfund is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to easing the lasting financial effects of cancer treatments for young adults with the disease.
ASTRO Develops a Template to Facilitate Radiotherapy-Specific Cancer Survivorship Care Plans
As the American College of Surgeons’ Commision on Cancer milestones approach, ASTRO publishes a template to ensure consistent, comprehensive survivorship care plans can be developed for cancer survivors whose treatment involved radiotherapy.
Hypnosedation: An Alternative Sedation Method for Glioma Resection
This technique, which does not use pharmaceutical sedatives, can ease the perioperative discomfort and anxiety experienced by some patients undergoing fully awake craniotomy to remove glioma.
Meditation Serves as a Coping Tool for Both Patients and Clinicians
After experiencing the benefits of meditation to help himself cope with the stress of caring for patients with cancer, this oncologist leads classes teaching those patients to use the tool to better cope with their disease and its effects.
Tumor Location and Duration of Therapy Influence Palliative Effects of Radiation Therapy for Painful Bone Metastases
In a review of the Dutch Bone Metastasis Study results, stratified for primary tumor location, palliative radiation therapy was found to reduce pain and improve quality of life for some patients.
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