Bette Weinstein Kaplan

As part of our 10-year celebration, the editors of ONA look at a subspecialty collaboration that can enhance palliative care and expand the multidisciplinary cancer care team.

A reflection on survivorship issues and up-to-date reports on current trends in treatment management.

The Empathy Project: A Skills Development Game is designed to help clinicians fine tune their ability to identify and understand the emotion in patients’ and family members’ statements and to respond empathically.

Transgender patients present unique communication as well as clinical challenges for oncology clinicians.

Proton pump inhibitors are used to control negative GI effects in patients receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer. But their availability as over-the-counter medications may be leading to overuse, making another common adverse effects worse.

A retrospective chart review demonstrated that pelvic floor muscle training can help relieve prostatectomy-related incontinence and pain in men with prostate cancer.

Cancer treatment can change patients’ oral and olfactory senses, resulting in loss of appetite, even unintentional weight loss.

Investigators at UCSD sought to create a tool to help clinicians predict patients’ risk of persistent opioid use after treatment.

Oncology nurses are in an ideal position to recommend early palliative care for patients. For this reason, in a recent Canadian study on brokering palliative care, researchers looked at the role of nurses as advocates for early palliation.1 Oncology nurses in Canada have different roles than their counterparts in the United States; staff nurses cannot…

The American College of Sports Medicine reconvened the ACSM Roundtable to update its guidelines for prescribing exercise for patients and survivors of cancers.