Volume 13, Number 1 (Jan/Feb 2022)

Editorial

Resolving Not to Make New Year’s Resolutions

Recently, a colleague and I aimed to discuss something other than the surge in the number of COVID-19 cases that have affected the country. Advanced practitioners (APs) across the nation are facing unpredictable and stressful situations ...

January 19, 2022

Research and Scholarship

Shared Decision-Making in Managing Breakthrough Cancer Pain in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Background: Pain is a significant problem in patients with cancer. Breakthrough cancer pain contributes to the pain experience, but it is often underassessed and underrecognized. Shared decision-making (SDM), where patient preferences, g...

January 19, 2022

Research and Scholarship

General and Unique Communication Skills Challenges for Advanced Practice Providers: A Mixed-Methods Study

Aims: Advanced practice providers are a rapidly growing sector of the health-care field. Despite their relatively new place in the medical establishment, these providers are held to high standards of education, practice, and communicatio...

January 19, 2022

Review Article

Emerging Treatment Options for Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer

Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be over 65,950 new cases diagnosed in 2022. According to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCC...

January 19, 2022

Review Article

Antibiotic Therapy and Gastrointestinal Graft-Versus-Host Disease in the Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation Population

Purpose: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients undergo rigorous courses of myeloablative chemotherapy that increase vulnerability for infections. Complications can arise in the form of graft-vs.-host disease (GvHD) manifesting...

January 19, 2022

Grand Rounds

Uterine Leiomyosarcoma

Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in adults and can occur in any part of the body. Uterine leiomyosarcoma (uLMS) is the most common location for LMS, making up 2% to 5% of all uterine malignancies. It is an aggr...

January 19, 2022

Considerations in Prescribing

Belantamab Mafodotin-blmf: A Novel Antibody-Drug Conjugate for Treatment of Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematologic malignancy characterized by proliferation of plasma cells with or without production of monoclonal immunoglobulins. Management of patients with MM begins with induction therapy, typically a proteaso...

January 19, 2022

Diagnostic Snapshot

Mysterious Arm Swelling in a Patient With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Complicated by Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

Hematologic malignancies often create difficult venous complications. Specifically, with lymphoma, the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is high, often requiring highly specialized accuracy in balancing this coagulopathy. This case st...

January 18, 2022