One in five patients experiences anxiety or depression at some point during their cancer journey, and those with a concurrent mental health condition have an increased risk of death and shorter life span compared to the general population. Despite that stark reality, mental health conditions have been frequently undertreated in patients with cancer.
Most patients with cancer experience at least one nutrition-related symptom in the outpatient setting but say they’re not having nutrition conversations with their cancer care team—yet providers think they are. The contrary reports came from study findings researchers published in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing.
First isolated in 2001, the BRIP1 (BRCA1 interaction protein C-terminal helicase 1) gene encodes for homologous recombination repair and facilitates DNA single- and double-strand break repair during DNA replication.
Just 17% of adult Americans received the updated COVID-19 vaccine as of early December 2023, and “that’s not enough,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Mandy Cohen, MD, told the U.S. Congress.
The next step for Congress: Cutting a separate deal on twelve individual pockets of money—before any bill can be written, with a shutdown looming. Congressional appropriators are sprinting to turn two big funding totals into 12, after party leaders secured a deal on a government funding framework over the weekend. For weeks, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s staff have haggled over budget totals for the military and domestic programs—only to wind up with the same funding limits set by last summer’s bipartisan debt agreement.
On January 12, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda®) with chemoradiotherapy for patients with FIGO 2014 stage III–IVA cervical cancer.
If you’ve read an awe-inspiring professional nursing or healthcare article, textbook chapter, or book that hit the mark on quality, accuracy, and readability and found yourself opining, “How did the author do that? I could never write something that great”—stop that thinking!
Standardized fact sheets about clinical trial protocols can ensure compliance and improve communication between research teams and frontline nurses, nurse researchers reported in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. More than 85% of clinical research and frontline nurses said the sheets improved their understanding of the clinical trial protocol.
Nurses represent a substantial percentage of healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) end users, yet 70% say they have little to no knowledge of AI technologies or uses. In an article published in the December 2023 issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, ONS members Britney Starr, BSN, RN, OCN®, and Erin Dickman, DNP, RN, OCN®, and incoming editor Joni L.
An accomplished physician–scientist with a career dedicated to biomarker-driven research and practice surrounding the development, early detection, and treatment of kidney cancer, W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, took the helm as the National Cancer Institute (NCI) director in December 2023.