Experts Introduce Biomarker Testing: Biomarker Basics

Overview

Speaker: Patricia Friend, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCNS®, AGN-BC

Dr. Friend reviews biomarker basics, which sets an important foundation to understand how biomarkers and biomarker testing informs treatment decisions and oncology nursing care. She reviews the different types of biomarkers and the classification of variants so that you can use the right terms in practice when speaking to the patient or the healthcare team. She then applies what she taught through a multitude of case examples.

This resource was developed by ONS through a sponsorship from AstraZeneca.

 

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