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Portland, Oregon

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Lebanon, New Hampshire

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Bronx, New York

Mercy Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland

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Burke, Virginia

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District of Columbia, D.C.

Beverly Hospital
Beverly, Massachusetts

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Washington

Riverside Healthcare
Bourbonnais, Illinois

June 15, 2023
by Jan Tipton DNP, APRN-CNS, AOCN®

Prepare for the silver tsunami—experts predict that the number of older adults with cancer, those aged 65 and older, will double by 2035. Oncology APRNs have a pivotal role in their care, understanding patients’ values and preferences to facilitate informed decision-making. But communication can be difficult when patients have comorbid geriatric syndromes such as cognitive deficits, delirium, and depression.

June 14, 2023
by Elisa Becze BA, ELS, Editor

More than two-thirds of patients who identify as LGBTQ+ lack at least one vital health education resource tailored to their identity, researchers reported in study findings presented at the 15th American Association for Cancer Research Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved. Additionally, nearly three-quarters of those patients desire posttreatment plans that include LGBTQ+ specific information.

"Sometimes you think, ‘Oh, these are just bladder patients; it’s different.’ But it might not be different. They still have a cancer diagnosis; this is still going to be a very fearful and unsettling time for that patient and their caregivers," Tiffany Kurtz, MSN, RN, OCN®, manager of outpatient oncology at Summa Health Cancer Institute in Akron, OH, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS. Kurtz discussed intravesical administration and oncology nurses’ role in the treatment. You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and completing the evaluation linked below.