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Chemo Controversy: An Inside Look
at the "Hot Chemotherapy Bath"

There is an ongoing debate in the oncology community about a treatment technique that involves cutting all visible cancer out of the abdomen and then flooding the cavity with heated chemotherapy drugs.

Dr. Vahdat Discusses the Side Effects of Halaven

Dr. Vahdat Compares Halaven and Ixempra Neuropathy

Dr. Zelenetz Discusses the Chemo Delivery Process

Dr. Bardwell Expresses the Importance of Listening

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Outpatient Treatment Approved for Low-Risk Febrile Neutropenia

Outpatient management in patients with cancer who have a low risk of severe febrile neutropenia is an effective and safe option to standard inpatient treatment.

Oncology & Biotech News > Clinical Trial Reports

Oncofertility, Osteonecrosis Emerge as Patient Concerns

Supportive care is a crucial component of personalized oncology care.

Oncology Live > Specialty Focus

Mouth Care Systems Alleviate Xerostomia After Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy often results in the loss of some salivary gland function, causing hyposalivation and xerostomia.

Oncology & Biotech News > News

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Nurse's Notes

Lisa Schulmeister, RN, MN, APRN-BC, OCN®, FAAN

Editor-in-Chief OncNurse
Oncology Nursing Consultant, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nursing
Louisiana State Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana

Electronic Health Records
Onc Nurses > Nurses' Blogs

Outpatient Electronic Prescriptions
Onc Nurses > Nurses' Blogs

Cancer Screening
Onc Nurses > Nurses' Blogs

Oncology Nurse Navigator

Sharon Francz, BHA

Executive Director, President, and Co-founder

National Coalition of Oncology Nurse Navigators

2011 in Review: NCONN Continues to Change the Face of Cancer Care
Onc Nurse > Nurse Navigators 101

Assessment Comes First in Navigating Young Adults With Cancer
Onc Nurse > Nurse Navigators 101

Core Competencies for the Oncology Nurse Navigator
Onc Nurse > Nurse Navigators 101

What Would You Do?

What is the best way to administer bendamustine, since some clinicians classify it as an irritant and others classify it as a vesicant?

What Would You Do: Should Topical Anesthetics be Used to Numb the Skin Overlying an Implanted Port Prior to Noncoring Needle Insertion?

What Would You Do: Would you use an implanted port that lacked a blood return to administer non-vesicant chemotherapy?

Patient Perspective

A Dog Named George: Rx for Recovery
—Laura Bruck

Living With Multiple Myeloma: Nurses as the Lifeline
—Laura Bruck

Back on the Horse: Ron Rogers
—Nick Sambides, Jr

Dear Kayla and Christopher: A Mom With Breast Cancer Documents Her Battle for Her 2 Young Children
—Laura Bruck

Resource Guides

A comprehensive tumor type specific collection of useful Websites to inform and support patients with Bone Metastases, Prostate Cancer, Lymphoma, Brain, Breast, and Lung Cancer in addition to the oncology professionals who treat them. Click below to open the resource guides.

Support & Assistance

Bone Metastases

Prostate Cancer

Lymphoma

Brain Cancer

Breast Cancer

Lung Cancer

Advocacy Spotlight

Lynch Syndrome International
Lynch Syndrome International (LSI) fills a tremendous void in the arena of hereditary cancers by providing networking, organization, and a voice.

Cancer Legal Resource Center
The Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC) is a national, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola Law School Los Angeles.

The Caring Ambassadors Program
CAP is a nonprofit providing information, resource referrals for personal support, and public advocacy for people at risk for or living with lung cancer or hepatitis C.

Advocacy Spotlight: Cancer and Careers
Cancer and Careers is the only program of its kind, dedicated to empowering and educating people with cancer to thrive in their workplace.

Jane M. Armer, RN, PhD

Wayne A. Bardwell, PhD, MBA
Suzanne Beauchene, BSN, RN
Donna Berry, PhD, RN
Elizabeth Blasiak, RN, MSN
Carlton Brown, RN, PhD

Kenneth E. Fleisher, DDS
Harold P. Freeman, MD

Reynaldo Garcia, RN, OCN

Karen Hagemaster, RN, BSN
Janet Hampton, RN, BS
Kristie Howlett, MS, RN