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Cathy Cole
The Evidence for Exercising
Cathy Cole, RNC, NP, MPH, CHES, CBPN-IC 5/18/2012  5
One of my best friends is a cardiac care nurse and a recent breast cancer survivor. I was amazed how she weathered the storm of chemotherapy and how, on the "good" weeks between ...
 Krista Rubin
When Is a Mole Not Just a Mole?
Krista Rubin, NP 5/18/2012 9
The diagnosis of melanoma can be exceedingly difficult to make, even for the most experienced practitioner. Typically, about 50 percent of melanoma arise from preexisting moles. The ...
 Stephanie Wiseman
Reader Boards: TheONC's Best Kept Secret
Stephanie Wiseman, Community Editor, TheONC 5/17/2012 7
Most of us are familiar with reader boards. We see them over screaming Wall Street types as they frantically wave pieces of paper and yell incoherently. We see them outside our ...
Carole McCue
Should I Consider Myself a Survivor?
Carole McCue, RN, MS, CNE 5/17/2012 6
As a cancer patient currently receiving maintenance chemotherapy, I was not sure as to whether I could be called a survivor. Yes, I survived the chemotherapy treatments, but when is ...
Michelle Bragazzi
Why the Lack of HPV Vaccine Compliance?
Michelle Bragazzi, RN, BS 5/16/2012 4
HPV vaccine completion rates among girls ages 9 to 18 have dropped significantly, by as much as 63 percent, according to researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) ...
Linda M. Gorman
Requests for Hastened Death
Linda M. Gorman, RN, MN, PMHCNS-BC, CHPN, FPCN, OCN 5/16/2012 11
Have you ever had a dying patient or family member of a dying patient ask you how to hasten death?
Katherine Trip
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Katherine Trip, MN NP 5/16/2012 7
A young, healthy 32-year-old man came in with edema of his upper chest and neck. He complained of difficulty swallowing and also trouble breathing when lying down. He had no history ...
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Michelle Bragazzi, RN, BS, 4/19/2012 9
TheONC's community editor Stephanie Wiseman took a trip to Duke University to sit down with some of the members of the radiation oncology team to discuss patients undergoing ...
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