Current Issue
VOL 9 • NO 4 MAY/JUN 2018
Breast cancer remains a common malignancy, with an estimated 366,120 new cases expected in women in the United States this year (Breastcancer.org, 2018). Although the incidence rate for this disease has decreased since the year 2000, the disease remains deadly for some: Approximately 40,920 women...
Original ResearchJoy L. Bartholomew, APRN, Hongying Dai, PhD, Keith J. August, MD, MS, Robin E. Ryan, MPH, and Kristin A. Stegenga, PhD, RN, CPONAcute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of pediatric leukemia, accounts for 26% of all cancers occurring in children from birth to 14 years of age (Ward, DeSantis, Robbins, Kohler, & Jemal, 2014). Of the 3,000 new pediatric cases arising each year in the United States (Ries e...
Review ArticleLindsey Lyle, MS, PA-C, and Alex Hirose, MMS, PA-CMyelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) encompass a heterogeneous group of hematologic malignancies that are characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis and risk for progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML; Mitchell, Gore, & Zeidan, 2013; Petrou et al., 2015; Shah, Kurtin, Arnold, Lindroos-Kolqvist...
Review ArticleEmily A. Lemke, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, AOCNP®, and Amishi Yogesh Shah, MDBladder cancer is the sixth most common malignancy in the United States, with 81,190 new cases and 17,240 deaths from bladder cancer predicted in 2018 (American Cancer Society, 2018). The most common presenting symptom is hematuria, although dysuria, frequency, and urgency occur in a certain subs...
Grand RoundsJustin E. Bala-Hampton, DNP, MPH, RN, AGACNP-BC, AOCNP®, Angela F. Bazzell, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, AOCNP®, and Joyce E. Dains, DrPH, JD, RN, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANPImmune checkpoint blockade monoclonal antibodies have revolutionized treatment and improved the prognosis for many patients with cancer (Eigentler et al., 2016; Weber, Yang, Atkins, & Disis, 2015; Wu, Hong, Zhang, Lu, & Miao, 2017). Immunotherapeutic drugs approved by the US Food and Drug...
Practice MattersCatherine S. Bishop, DNP, NP, AOCNP®The 2017 State of Cancer Care in America report by the American Society of Clinical Oncology highlights progress and opportunities in the ever-changing and challenging specialty of oncology. According to the report, the number of cancer survivors is predicted to reach 20.3 million by 2026. This i...
Prescriber's CornerRebecca A. Myers,(1) PharmD, Scott Wirth,(2) PharmD, BCOP, Sherry Williams,(3) PharmD, BCOP, and Patrick J. Kiel,(1,4) PharmD, BCPS, BCOPAcute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by infiltration of the bone marrow, blood, and other tissues by proliferative, clonal, abnormally differentiated, and occasionally poorly differentiated cells of the hematopoietic system. The incidence of AML has increased from 3.4 per 100,000 individ...
Diagnostic SnapshotKimberly Dotter, APRN, MD History
Mr. V is a 25-year-old man with no significant past medical history who began experiencing shortness of breath while lying supine, along with changes in swallowing over the past several months. More recently, he noted a neck mass while shaving. Mr. V presented to clinic with complaints of...
