Multiple Myeloma: A Textbook for Nurses, 2nd Edition

The second edition of Multiple Myeloma: A Textbook for Nurses provides a comprehensive review of the challenges and opportunities encountered throughout the journey of patients with multiple myeloma, allowing you and your staff to Provide quality care from diagnosis through survivorship. Safely administer three new drugs that have been approved since the publication of the first edition. Carfilzomib Pomalidomide Panobinostat Educate your patients on the genetics and epigenetics of multiple myeloma, including novel therapies, biomarkers, and promising drug clinical trials

Changes in Cancer Treatment: Mabs, Mibs, Mids, Nabs and Nibs

KEY POINTS Stay abreast on latest cancer treatments; cancer treatments have evolved from genocidal to specific cellular, molecular, and genetic targeting approaches (targeted therapies) to kill cancer cells. Manage the side effects of cancer treatments; this is essential to adherence and a successful completion of planned targeted therapy. Educate patients and their caregivers on treatment-related information to empower them in becoming active participants of the cancer journey.Cancer therapeutics has changed at a rapid pace over the past two decades. Cancertreatment changes are undoubtedly driven by the recent advances in the understandingof cancer pathobiology, leading to molecular classifications of various cancertypes instead of organ-based cancer classifications.Scientific advances and discoverieshave led to an improved therapeutic approach and eventually forged a newpathway to cure cancer, leaving behind the primitive genocidal and toxic approachof cancer treatment. Moreover, improved understanding of the pathobiology of cancerat the molecular and genetic levels catalyzed the rapid changes in cancer therapeutics,ushering in the era of targeted therapies

The evolving role of the nurse during the cancer treatment decision-making process: A literature review

Background: Many models of patient-physician relationships have been described since a paternalistic model was postulated in the early 1950s. Among them are the informative model, doctor-as-agent model, shared model of care, family-centered model, and Degner and Beaton’s Patterns of Decision Making. Objectives: This article aims to examine the contemporary role of the nurse during the cancer treatment decision-making process. Methods: This article reviews the current and evidence-based role of the nurse during cancer treatment decision making, and implications for practice and research are discussed. Findings: Because of external forces, such as rising cost of health care, increasing healthcare consumerism, and increased emphasis on patient-centered care, the shared model of care is taking hold, particularly in the cancer setting. The evolution of these models has caused a shift in the dialogue related to cancer treatment decision making between patients and physicians, as well as oncology nurses. These events contribute to the evolving role of the nurse during the cancer treatment decision-making process

The Nurse’s Role in Addressing Barriers to Cancer Screening of African Americans: An Integrative Literature Review

Background: While investigations into racial cancer disparities have been conducted since cancer screening practices have begun, there are few studies that address barriers to cancer screening behaviors in African Americans particularly within the perspective of nursing. This concept is of particular concern because nurses have an opportunity and responsibility to impact the overall incidence and mortality of cancers. Objective: The purposes of this integrative literature review were to simultaneously identify various barriers to early cancer detection and screening behaviors among African Americans and to evaluate the nursing interventions constituting the nurse’s role in overcoming these barriers.Method: Research articles were identified using the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest), PubMed, and PsychINFO, published between 2000 and 2016. After inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, fourteen research studies were used in the data analysis. Results: Fourteen studies focused on breast cancer and prostate cancer screening in African Americans. These studies examined barriers to early cancer detection in this population while also evaluating nursing interventions that addressed obstacles impeding cancer screening. Continuing nurse education, the use of specially selected focus groups and decision aids, patient education, shared decision making care delivery model, and involvement in multidisciplinary teams have been found to be effective nursing interventions to address barriers to cancer screening in African Americans.Conclusion: The literature research revealed the nurse’s role in improving cancer screening of African Americans through a wide range of nursing interventions. By targeting this disparate population in oncology, nurses are actively contributing to the continued decline in morbidity and mortality rates associated with cancer screening disparities among American Americans. Insurance coverage and other influential social determinants of health must be addressed during the development and implementation of theoretically-based nursing interventions for cancer screening in African Americans