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Radiation-induced diarrhea is seen most often with radiation to abdominal and pelvic fields.
Caregiver strain and burden includes difficulties functioning in the caregiver role and associated alterations in the caregiver’s emotional and physical health.
Anxiety is an emotional and/or physiologic response that is a common experience among patients coping with any cancer diagnosis.
Patients undergoing transplantation are at high risk for infection with a variety of pathogens at multiple phases in their care.
Intervention research regarding chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in adults consist of studies with sample subjects who are at least 18 years old.
Intervention research regarding CINV in pediatric patients consists of studies with subjects younger than 18 years old.
The ASCO/ONS Chemotherapy Administration Safety Standards are intended to reduce the risk of error when providing adult patients with chemotherapy, and to provide a framework for best practices in cancer care.
Intractable pain or refractory pain occurs when pain cannot be adequately controlled despite aggressive measures.
Chronic pain persists for three months or more. Cancer-related chronic pain may result from cancer treatment but is most frequently caused by bone metastasis.
Breakthrough pain is sudden, brief pain that occurs during a period when chronic pain is generally well controlled (typically, controlled with opiods).