OBJECTIVE To examine health professionals' experiences of and attitudes towards the provision of chemotherapy to patients with end stage cancer. DESIGN Purposive, qualitative design based on in-depth interviews. Setting Oncology departments at university hospitals and general hospitals in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 14 physicians and 13 nurses who cared for patients with metastatic cancer...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine whether women receiving dose-dense chemotherapy for breast cancer experience different levels of fatigue than women receiving standard chemotherapy regimens for the disease. DESIGN Quasi-experimental pilot study. SETTING Private physicians' offices in California. SAMPLE 15 women with stage I, II, or III breast cancer receiving dose-dense or standard chemoth...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review the effects of chemotherapeutic agents on the blood-brain barrier as related to cytokine release and cognitive impairment. DATA SOURCES PubMed database. DATA SYNTHESIS The recent findings that standard doses of chemotherapy agents reach higher than expected levels in the brain and cerebral spinal fluid are being investigated as a potential etiology for the cogni...

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 Chemotherapy can cause physiological and psychological impacts that some patients to feel afraid do chemotherapy, for this reason, family support nurse are needed so colorectal cancer remain motivated undergo chemotherapy. The purpose of study was determine the relationship between on patient motivation chemotherapy in at Dr. Saiful Anwar Hospital Malang. design used is a correla...

Oral health care is a crucial aspect of oncology nursing practice; therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate nurses’ knowledge and practice with oral mucositis (OM) cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. One hundred nurses were participated from Hiwa Shahid Shaswari Garmian hospitals, in addition demographic, questionnaire designed constructed by the researcher assess nurse’s through Th...

As a group, oncology nurses are aging, mirroring a large portion of the American public. Many practicing nurses are approaching middle age, and with increased age comes an increased risk for cancer. Many oncology nurses are cancer survivors, and the experience of treating a colleague is becoming more common, but few publications have addressed this topic. Pennsylvania Oncology Hematology Associ...

PURPOSE to develop a tool for measuring the difficulty of intravenous line insertion in cancer patients (DIVA-CP) receiving peripheral chemotherapy. METHODS a pilot-validation study divided into two phases was performed in a north-eastern Italian outpatient chemotherapy centre. In the first phase, a review of the literature and brainstorming sessions/direct discussions among expert oncology n...

Oncology nurses play a pivotal role in the care of patients receiving chemotherapy and are in a prime position to facilitate better care of patients experiencing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). However, to do so, they must be kept well apprised of the most recent guidelines, the latest developments in CINV therapy, and the expanding knowledge of CINV pathophysiology. In April 2...

PURPOSE Severe neutropenia and febrile neutropenia (FN) are the major causes of morbidity, treatment interruptions and dose reductions in patients undergoing chemotherapy. The European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) conducted an European survey to evaluate nurse perspectives on prevention of infection and FN in this setting, and how much they educate their patients about this. A separate surve...

Objective: To measure the levels of nurse’s knowledge and attitude after the conduct of education session regarding chemotherapy administration and management. Methodology: This research study was conducted at two oncology units of tertiary Hospital Rawalpindi. A pre-post test intervention study design was used on 35 nurses by using Verity’s tools. Results: The mean scores of knowledge were cal...