Anne Landry
Topical Applications of Leptospermum Honey Dramatically Improve Healing of Complex Wounds
Anne Landry, Editor, The Oncology Group 6/18/2013  1
In a poster presentation at the 38th Annual Oncology Nursing Society Congress, Patrice Dillow, MSN, RN, APRN, WOCN, an oncology wound care specialist from the Cancer Treatment ...

Katherine Mitchell
Using Antihistamines for Neulasta-Induced Bone Pain
Katherine Mitchell, APRN, AOCNP 6/14/2013  13
In our medical careers, we have all been guilty of recommending a remedy for a patient's ailment because it worked for a handful of other patients, or even for ourselves, and thus ...

Nicole Haines
Implementing After-Hours Care for Oncology Patients
Nicole Haines, RN 6/12/2013  13
A couple of years ago, we made a family trip to Disney World. While attending the night show at Epcot, we stood on a lovely bridge with wrought iron railings to watch. My then ...

Julianna Paradisi
The Right Answer Lets You Sleep at Night
Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN 6/3/2013  14
The hullabaloo caused by Angelina Jolie's disclosure that she underwent prophylactic, bilateral mastectomies to avoid breast cancer is dying down, although her picture, smiling in ...

Laura Newton
Celiac Disease & the Cancer Risk
Laura Newton, MA, RD 5/16/2013  14
May is National Celiac Disease Awareness month. While I believe that the awareness of celiac disease has increased in the general public and in healthcare itself compared to 10 to ...

Katherine Mitchell
Hypomagnesemia in the Patient Undergoing Chemotherapy
Katherine Mitchell, APRN, AOCNP 5/8/2013  10
Cancer patients undergoing certain types of therapy are at an increased risk for developing hypomagnesemia, or low blood magnesium levels. Why does this matter? Low levels of ...

Dianna Ellison
Cancer-Related Fatigue: What Is a Person to Do?
Dianna Ellison, RN, OCN, CCM 4/30/2013  17
I recently found an article in Oncology Times that was very interesting due to the fact that patients I see every day often complain of fatigue.

Monica Key
Feeling Like the Perpetual Neophyte
Monica Key, APRN, CCRN, AOCNP 4/30/2013  7
The advances in oncology are fascinating and wonderful. However, with all of the new treatment options, new indications, and related side effects, some days I often feel like the ...

Monica Key
Remembering That Chemotherapy Does Have Risks: Final Diagnosis
Monica Key, APRN, CCRN, AOCNP 4/22/2013  6
So, remember Trish, our young woman with adenocarcinoma rectal cancer who had experienced cardiogenic shock midcycle with cycle number two of her fluorouracil (5-FU)? We now have a ...