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    Clinical and Pharmaceutical Nurse Educators Collaborate to Bring Training to Nurses and Improve Patient Care
    Oncology nurse education
    Clinical and Pharmaceutical Nurse Educators Collaborate to Bring Training to Nurses and Improve Patient Care
    January 13, 2023
    Oncology Nurse Uses Retirement to Help Patients and Healthcare Professionals Understand Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker Testing Results
    Pancreatic cancer
    Oncology Nurse Uses Retirement to Help Patients and Healthcare Professionals Understand Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker Testing Results
    November 11, 2022
    The Life of Marie Curie and Her Contributions to Oncology
    Cancer treatments
    The Life of Marie Curie and Her Contributions to Oncology
    November 07, 2022
    Post-Flooding Natural Disaster Cancer Considerations and Patient Education Points
    Patient safety
    Post-Flooding Natural Disaster Cancer Considerations and Patient Education Points
    September 28, 2022
    Can Patients Use Continuous Glucose Monitors During Radiation Therapy for Cancer?
    Radiation therapy
    Can Patients Use Continuous Glucose Monitors During Radiation Therapy for Cancer?
    August 19, 2022
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    Communication Models Help Nurses Confidently Address Sexual Concerns in Patients With Cancer
    Sexual/reproductive issues

    Communication Models Help Nurses Confidently Address Sexual Concerns in Patients With Cancer

    Sexual dysfunction is one of the most common side effects of cancer treatment, yet oncology professionals often under address patients’ sexuality and sexual dysfunction concerns. Providers cite lack of time, training, and resources as barriers to initiating important discussions about sexual side effects, and studies show that patients’ age and prognosis are additional hindering factors.

    October 18, 2022
    The Intersection of Pelvic Health and Oncology Optimizes Sexual Symptom Management
    Sexual/reproductive issues

    The Intersection of Pelvic Health and Oncology Optimizes Sexual Symptom Management

    Both a patient’s cancer and their subsequent treatment plan can affect their bodies, including pelvic health and sexual functioning. A pelvic health physical therapist can help combat—or even prevent—those issues as a member of the interprofessional cancer care team.

    October 04, 2022
    Sexual Considerations for Patients With Cancer
    Sexual/reproductive issues

    Sexual Considerations for Patients With Cancer

    As a term, sexuality is linked to sexual functioning—the ability to engage in sexual behaviors and the body’s physiologic response—as well as sexual reproduction and fertility. But those biologic aspects are just a small part of a person’s overall sexuality. Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being and requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships.

    October 04, 2022
    More Women Have Access to Essential Health Care, HHS Says During Women’s History Month
    Quality of care

    More Women Have Access to Essential Health Care, HHS Says During Women’s History Month

    Healthcare organizations and agencies across the country, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), prioritized enhancing and expanding services like maternal and postpartum care and sexual and reproductive health during Women’s History Month, HHS announced in March 2022.

    April 08, 2022
    HHS HIV Challenge Encourages Community Engagement to Reduce HIV-Related Stigma and Disparities
    Patient advocacy

    HHS HIV Challenge Encourages Community Engagement to Reduce HIV-Related Stigma and Disparities

    The negative stigma surrounding HIV can affect patients’ emotional well-being and mental health, and the stigma can come from anywhere: healthcare professionals, communities, and even themselves. In partnership with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health and Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health created the HIV Challenge, a community engagement program to reduce HIV-related stigma and disparities by “providing an opportunity for individuals and organizations to participate in developing novel innovative approaches that can be successfully implemented within their local communities.”

    August 20, 2021
    The Case of the Transgender Considerations for Cancer Screening
    Patient Support

    The Case of the Transgender Considerations for Cancer Screening

    Sally, a nurse practitioner in a cancer survivorship clinic, is preparing to discuss screening and surveillance guidelines with Jonah, a 32-year-old survivor of Hodgkin lymphoma. Sally reviews Jonah’s patient history form and notes that Jonah uses he and him pronouns. His gender identity is male and sex assigned at birth was female. Jonah’s surgical history includes gender-affirming surgery on chest tissue (also known as top surgery), and his current medications include supplemental testosterone. Jonah also specifies that he is transmasculine—an umbrella term used to indicate that Jonah feels a connection with masculinity.

    April 20, 2021
    HHS Releases National Strategic Plan to End HIV Epidemic
    Patient advocacy

    HHS Releases National Strategic Plan to End HIV Epidemic

    The two most recent administrations prioritized ending the HIV epidemic, which has claimed the lives of more than 700,000 Americans since the virus was first identified in the 1980s. To follow those initial efforts, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a strategic roadmap to end the HIV epidemic and reduce new HIV infections by 90% by 2030.

    March 11, 2021
    Sex Is an Important Dimension of Cancer Psychosocial Care That We Need to Stop Neglecting
    Sexual/reproductive issues

    Sex Is an Important Dimension of Cancer Psychosocial Care That We Need to Stop Neglecting

    My charge nurse approached me and told me that I am getting an admission from the emergency department who presented with high blood pressure and shortness of breath. She told me that the patient is on concurrent chemoradiation therapy and has a rectal cancer.

    July 26, 2019
    ONS Congress

    Get Comfortable Talking to Patients About Sexuality During and After Cancer Treatment

    Bothersome and distressing sexual dysfunction is common in both men and women living with cancer. Treatments can potentially alter a person’s sexual health in the physical, emotional, mental ,and social well-being realms of care. Literature has shown that time constraints and level of comfort with sexual health content are barriers to addressing patients’ sexual health concerns. On Friday, April 12, 2019, at the ONS 44th Annual Congress in Anaheim, CA, speakers provided an overview of sexual health concerns and strategies to assure a positive and respectful approach to female and male patients with cancer who are experiencing them.

    April 12, 2019
    San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

    Sexual Function Varies by Some Treatments in Breast Cancer Survivors

    Surgical modality and receipt of chemotherapy or radiotherapy are not associated with sexual function, as measured by the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). Patients receiving endocrine therapy with an aromatase inhibitor had significantly lower sexual function scores than those who received no endocrine therapy or those on tamoxifen, said a group of U.S. researchers who presented their findings during a poster session on Saturday, December 10, at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

    December 10, 2017
    Lidocaine reduces pain during sexual intercourse
    Breast cancer

    Lidocaine Reduces Pain During Sexual Intercourse for Breast Cancer Survivors

    As a greater number of patients are living beyond a cancer diagnosis, the management of health issues related to the persistent and late effects of cancer treatment is important and essential to long-term improvements in health.
    February 23, 2016
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