Supportive Care

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, gives an overview of the Adult Survivorship Program.

More and more, as the use of maintenance therapy increases, oncology nurses are tasked with monitoring how the strategy is working for specific patients.

Oncologists need to learn that it is possible, and indeed preferable, to have very early discussions about end-of-life choice.

Although the number of survivors is impressive, survivorship also brings challenges, as many cancer survivors experience long-term physical and psychosocial effects of the disease and its treatment.

New system hopes to improve toxicity grading accuracy.