Commentary
It has always been my opinion that nurses are often expected to be the healthcare professionals who “do everything.”
I’ve never met MMA, but I can tell one very important thing about her from the blog she wrote about adherence to therapy at home.
Since the publication of the positive results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST)—the first lung cancer screening trial to demonstrate a reduction in lung cancer mortality—in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2011, several uncertainties regarding implementation of widespread lung cancer screening have arisen.
Nurse navigation and distress monitoring will go hand in hand as the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer institutes its Cancer Program Standards 2012: Ensuring Patient-Centered Care as part of its accreditation standards beginning January 1, 2012.
Outcomes from the roundtable held in conjunction with the George Washington Cancer Institute Cancer Survivorship Research and Health Disparities Symposium have far-reaching implications that will impact clinical practice and how we, as clinicians, address cancer survivorship care in the future.
Maintenance therapy has begun to emerge as a treatment standard for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease has not progressed after 4 to 6 cycles of frontline chemotherapy.
Significant advances in treating non–small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC) have been made over the
past 10 years; nevertheless, survival im provement
in this disease pales compared with many other
solid tumors. Because maintenance chemotherapy offers improved survival in NSCLC,
patients and doctors are justifiably excited.
With 11.7 million cancer survivors in the United
States, the role of navigation in survivorship is
growing. As our population ages, navigators will
need to focus on the specific needs of the older
and elderly patients they navigate through survivorship
care.
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