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Virtual Reality Is a Tool for Education, Relaxation for Nurses and Patients
Simulated experiences using virtual reality (VR) can help oncology nurses alleviate a patient’s anxiety before undergoing treatment, provide comfort in palliative care settings, and serve as an educational tool for both nurses and patients.
Oncologist Burnout Could Be Rising for These Reasons
While other physician specialties have seen a decline in burnout, oncologists are reporting slightly higher rates of burnout. Medscape's "Physician Burnout and Depression Report 2024" surveyed 9,226 physicians across 29 specialties between July 5 and Oct. 9. In the rankings, 53% of oncologists said they experienced burnout. This is a 1% increase over the 2023 report, though oncologists jumped to the second-most burned out specialty, up from the 12th spot in 2023.
How Serious Is FDA Warning About Revolutionary Blood-Cancer Treatment?
The Food and Drug Administration announced in December 2023 that it’s investigating reports of secondary cancers in patients who received CAR T-cell therapy, one of a suite of immunotherapies that have revolutionized cancer care over the past decade. The treatment reprograms a patient’s T cells, a key part of the immune system, to recognize and attack cancer cells.
Clinical Biomarkers Are the Key to Precision Medicine in Prostate Cancer
Current treatment approaches increasingly rely on cancer biomarkers to gain information about a patient's cancer to predict which treatment may work best for them, a practice known as precision medicine. At a fundamental level, precision medicine focuses on selecting the right treatment, for the right patient, at the right time to optimize health outcomes. Precision medicine looks at genetics, the environment, and lifestyle of a patient and accounts for specific information about the cancerous tumor to aide in diagnosis, estimate prognosis, select therapy, and monitor the efficacy of treatment.
Diet and Exercise Interventions Improve Chemotherapy Outcomes for Women With Breast Cancer: Study
A new Yale Cancer Center study finds a targeted diet and exercise intervention could improve outcomes for women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. In the study, published September 1 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, women recently diagnosed with breast cancer targeted were offered interventions aimed at adopting dietary and physical activity guidelines with the goal of fighting chemotoxicity and improving therapy adherence.
Scientists Employ AI To Predict Brain Cancer Outcomes
Stanford Medicine scientists and colleagues create an algorithm that could help physicians better understand and target complicated brain tumors.