Volume 12, Number 6 (Aug 2021)

Editorial

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting: Takeaways for the Advanced Practitioner

Welcome to our special issue on highlights from the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Annual Meeting, which was ASCO’s second virtual meeting. Taking place from June 4 to 8, 2021, the ASCO Annual Meeting connected aroun...

August 24, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Disparities and Access to Care: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Amy Pierre, MSN, ANP-BC, of Flatiron Health and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, considers takeaways from a program targeting minority accrual to oncology trials and a study evaluating minority representation in precision oncology...

August 24, 2021

Meeting Report

Breast Cancer: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Sheeba Cantanelli, MPAS, PA-C, of UT Southwestern Medical Center, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses results from studies evaluating adjuvant therapy with a PARP inhibitor in BRCA-mutated HER2-negative metastatic breast cance...

August 24, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Thoracic Cancer: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Elizabeth S. Waxman, RN, MSN, AOCN®, ANP-BC, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, reviews important research in thoracic cancers presented at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting, including atezolizumab in early-stage lung cancer, the addition of doubl...

August 24, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Melanoma: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

With coverage from The ASCO Post, Lisa Kottschade, APRN, MSN, CNP, of Mayo Clinic, reviews data on immune therapy after surgery, the combination of the anti–LAG-3 antibody relatlimab and nivolumab, and a 6.5-year update of combination ni...

August 24, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Gastrointestinal Cancers: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Nina N. Grenon, DNP, AGCNP-BC, AOCN®, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, evaluates data on single and dual immunotherapy for advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; maintenance therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer; a HER2-targeted...

August 25, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Prostate Cancer: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Morgane C. Diven, PharmD, BCOP, of Phoenix VA Health Care System, evaluates research on an investigational radiolabeled small molecule, combination therapy in the treatment of de novo metastatic prostate cancer, and a CYP17-lyase inhibit...

August 25, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Genitourinary (Non-Prostate) Cancers: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Following coverage from The ASCO Post, Emily Lemke, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, AOCNP®, of Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center, comments on an adjuvant trial of a checkpoint inhibitor for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC), real-world data...

August 25, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Gynecologic Cancers: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Laura Doherty, FNP-BC, AOCNP®, of Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island/Brown University, interprets data on adjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer, bevacizumab for advanced ovarian cancer, a new treatment opti...

August 25, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Other Solid Cancers: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Abby Fuoto, DNP, ANP-BC, AOCNP®, ACHPN, of University of Arizona Cancer Center, considers the implications of a novel monoclonal antibody for nasopharyngeal cancer, and Mee-young Lee, MSN, ANP-BC, of Monter Cancer Center, Northwell, disc...

August 25, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Hematologic Malignancies: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

With conference reporting provided by The ASCO Post, Amber B. Koehler, PA-C, MS, of Mayo Clinic, evaluates data on BTK inhibitors; fixed-duration, first-line treatment with ibrutinib plus venetoclax; and a novel oral BCL2 antagonist for ...

August 25, 2021

Meeting Abstracts

Issues in Oncology: 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Highlights for the Advanced Practitioner

Josh Epworth, ARNP, of University of Washington Medical Center, considers the findings of three important abstracts from the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting and reflects on how advanced practitioners can improve access and care for their patien...

August 25, 2021