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This module explores the considerations and principles of comprehensive survivorship care of patients with cancer. Learn considerations of each treatment modality, psychosocial and spiritual impacts of treatment, best practice, and the essential influence of the advanced practice provider in care of the cancer survivor.
This introductory course provides a foundation for providing care to patients experiencing a cancer diagnosis, treatment complications, or trouble coping. You’ll cover a range of basic topics, from cancer biology, treatments, symptom management, and patient and family care.
High-risk anti-cancer medications, such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapy require a consistent and standardized approach to handling, ordering, preparing, dispensing, and administering to ensure patient and provider safety.
Using two agents that target two different receptors more than doubles length of survival for advanced melanoma than a single agent alone, researchers reported at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.
Patients with uveal melanoma who were treated with tebentafusp, an investigational immunotherapy, lived a median 5.7 months longer than those in comparison groups, researchers reported in study findings presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 2021 annual meeting.
Completing up to a year of pembrolizumab immunotherapy after surgical resection of stage IIB or IIC melanoma decreases patients’ risk for disease recurrence or death by 35%, according to study findings presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2021 annual meeting. The new findings led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand its approval of pembrolizumab to use as adjuvant therapy in both adults and children aged 12 and older with early-stage melanoma.
Safe administration of high-risk anticancer medications requires careful calculation of ordered doses. Review this huddle card to understand how to calculate body surface area (BSA).