Providing concise, consistent, and individually relevant patient education is critical. At one institution, patients and families attended a chemotherapy education class consisting of an 11-minute DVD and an oncology nurse-facilitated group discussion. Postclass and eight-week follow-up surveys...

Cabazitaxel, a novel taxane, was approved in June 2010 by the U.S. Food and Drug Admini-stration for treatment of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) in men previously treated with docetaxel. In TROPIC (N = 755), an open-label, randomized, phase III trial, cabazitaxel (plus...

Purpose/Objectives: To describe oncology nurses' use of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) clinical practice guidelines for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN) and febrile neutropenia (FN). Design: Cross-sectional survey design; descriptive, correlational analysis. Setting: E-mail...

Purpose/Objectives: To test patients' knowledge of side effects after they review six easy-to-read pamphlets on radiation side effects. Design: Nonexperimental. Setting: Urban radiation oncology clinic. Sample: 47 patients receiving radiation treatment. Methods: The Knowledge of Radiation Side...