Volume 13, Number 5 (July 2022)

Editorial

Complexities of Care and the Interdisciplinary Team

Many of you who are reading this article are advanced practitioners (APs) and experts in the management of complex patient symptoms. Despite managing “side effects” of treatment for years as a nurse, then an advanced practitioner, I did ...

July 18, 2022

Research and Scholarship

Improving Cancer Care Delivery: Learnings for Oncology Nurses and Patient Navigation From a National Quality Survey

Background: Although implementation of patient navigation programs in clinical practice is widespread, heterogeneity exists in the design and delivery of these services. Greater clarity is required on competencies of personnel, delineati...

July 18, 2022

Research and Scholarship

Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm: A Single Institutional Case Series of a Rare Pancreatic Tumor

Purpose: Solid pseudopapillary neoplasms (SPN) are rare pancreatic cystic neoplasms with low malignant potential that tend to occur in young women. Due to the rarity of this disease, there are few large case series in the literature, and...

July 18, 2022

Review Article

Measuring Advanced Practice Provider Productivity at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s Member Institutions

Introduction: The utilization of advanced practice providers (APPs) in oncology has been growing over the last decade; however, there is no standard method for assessing an APP’s contributions to oncology care. Methods: The NCCN Best Pra...

July 18, 2022

Review Article

Barriers to Adherence to Cancer Treatments Among Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Head and neck cancer patients often undergo a demanding treatment schedule requiring radiation and chemotherapy. Adherence to these treatment schedules is affected by several issues, including socioeconomic factors, characteristics of th...

July 20, 2022

Grand Rounds

Richter Transformation: Clinical Manifestations, Evaluation, and Management

Richter transformation is a devastating and rare but not uncommon development of an aggressive B-cell lymphoma in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma. Prognosis is dismal, with survival generally in t...

July 20, 2022

Practice Matters

An Approach to Diagnosis of Richter Transformation in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Richter transformation (RT) is the development of high-grade lymphoma in patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). CLL/SLL is a heterogenous disease with a highly variable clinical cour...

July 20, 2022

Considerations in Prescribing

The Current Landscape for METex14 Skipping Mutations in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Capmatinib and tepotinib received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) exon 14 (METex14) skipping alteration in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Capmatinib was FDA approved in May 2020 un...

July 20, 2022