Background: In many women with early-stage breast cancer, breast-conserving surgery (BCS) with partial breast irradiation (PBI) has similar overall survival and local recurrence rates compared to BCS with whole-breast irradiation (WBI). A better understanding of the quality of life (QOL) outcomes...

The best gift a patient ever gave me was a recipe. It was handwritten on a small piece of lined paper, all in capital letters. The recipe was for zucchini bread and was given to me by Mr. S, a lung cancer survivor in his early 80s who I had been following in the cancer survivorship clinic that I...

Background: Patients with breast cancer undergoing radiation therapy can experience dermatologic adverse events. Oncology nurses can advocate for radiation dermatitis (RD) prophylaxis to minimize dermatologic adverse events. Objectives: This quality improvement project was conducted to evaluate the...

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Many individuals have significant symptoms related to this disease. Palliative radiation therapy (PRT) can relieve symptoms at the end of life for those with metastatic cancer. PRT is underused in treating patients with symptomatic cancer at the end of...