Mr. B.—or why I became an oncology nurse
A new nurse welcomed the challenge of providing care and compassion to a difficult patient. The experience shed light on why she chose this career.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Improved quality of life is achieved through successful communication
An individualized plan of care that kept the patient’s dementia in mind helped to produce an excellent outcome for this elderly patient.
Providing care by telephone: Using communication tools to expand patients’ access to care
Centralized telephone medical management, with automated symptom monitoring and a long distance reach, improved cancer patients’ pain and depression.
Mind over body: The effects of depression on physical disease and how it can predict outcome
Depression accompanies the disease in some people with cancer; in some depression may even predict outcome.
Integrative Oncology—July 2010
This column explores the complementary strategies and practices that can help cancer patients stay as healthy as possible during treatment. This month, the author explains the rationale for the column in My Story.
When the patient decides: No more treatment
Clinicians are all too aware that chemotherapy can be either a friend or a foe. When it does become the enemy, supporting the patient’s decision to stop treatment often means saying yes to compassionate care.
Caregivers shed light on “true” well-being of patients with brain cancer
Caregivers can help give doctors a more complete update on brain cancer patients’ well-being, according to a study presented in advance of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
How kidney cancer therapies could improve quality of life
Kidney cancer drugs in development could improve patients’ quality of life and allow more effective treatment, according to Professor Robert Hawkins of Manchester University.
The management of pruritus in palliative care
Effective diagnosis and treatment of pruritus at the end of life can markedly improve quality of life.
Doctors Skip Smoking Cessation Talk with Cancer Survivor Patients
Physicians miss opportunities to advise cancer survivor patients to quit smoking, say researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
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