Supportive Care

Igor Puzanov, MD, director, Early Phase Clinical Trials Program, chief of Melanoma, coleader, CCSG Experimental Therapeutics Program, professor of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses ways to manage patients with melanoma who may experience adverse events in response to treatment with immunotherapy.

It was 15 years ago that Jeffrey Brenner, MD, hypothesized that patients with the highest costs in the Camden, New Jersey, healthcare system received the worst care.

Findings from the first prospective, randomized clinical trial to evaluate modern scalp-cooling demonstrate that the system is safe and effective in reducing hair loss in women being treated with chemotherapy for their breast cancer, especially for those on taxane-based regimens.

Hossein Borghaei, DO, chief, Division of Thoracic Medical Oncology, director, Lung Cancer Risk Assessment, associate professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses the management of slightly rarer side effects that patients with lung cancer can experience when treated with immunotherapy agents.

In 2014, under the leadership of UVA Executive Vice President Richard P. Shannon, MD, the Be Safe initiative was developed to deliver the highest-quality of advanced healthcare to patients, and emphasizes 3 main areas.

Erin Kopp, ACNP-BC, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, on managing the side effects of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma treatment.

Thomas LeBlanc, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses why it is important to include patients in the decision-making process for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

For patients receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy, olanzapine (Zyprexa) was found to demonstrate a significant improvement in the prevention of nausea when it was added to a standard antiemetic regimen.

Heather Jim, MD, describes the psychological impacts of testosterone-lowering drugs for patients with prostate cancer—and what oncologists should do to help.

Additional findings from 2 studies of rolapitant (Varubi) for the prevention of CINV are providing further evidence of the efficacy of the long-acting NK-1 receptor antagonist.

Clifford A. Hudis, MD, CEO, ASCO, discusses how oncologists should be helping patients with breast cancer overcome obesity.

Giselle Carnaby, PhD, professor, ASHA fellow, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida, discusses rehabilitation of swallowing after multimodality therapy in patients with head and neck cancer, and why they may be resistant to it.

The FDA has approved an extended release injection formulation of granisetron (Sustol) for use in combination with other antiemetic therapies for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.

Despite a leap forward in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cancer pain in the past several decades, clinical translation of targeted therapies has been slow.