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Refresh your knowledge on immunotherapy, an antineoplastic treatment modality. This card reviews immunotherapy, providing examples as well as its benefits, limitations, and targets.
Review this huddle card in a group or individually to learn more about tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy.
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy combines tumor-specific antigen recognition and T-cell immune fighting responses to target and destroy specific malignancies. Review this huddle card in a group or individually to learn more about chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T -cell therapy.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a form of immunotherapy that increases anticancer immune responses by targeting receptors on the surface of T lymphocytes. Review this huddle card in a group or individually to learn more about checkpoint inhibitors.
Specialized education, preparation, and training of nurses who administer antineoplastic cancer therapies are needed to ensure a safe level of care for patients receiving treatment and the clinicians administering these agents.
The principles of antineoplastic administration require additional training and specialized knowledge, which apply in the home setting as well as healthcare facilities.
Because of rapid scientific and technological advances in cancer care, nurses must maintain current and highly specialized knowledge to provide quality care. Continuous professional development and earning specialty nursing certification are important considerations to maintain pace with the rapid advances in cancer care knowledge.