Volume 11, Number 8 (Nov/Dec 2020)

JADPRO Live Virtual 2020

Evaluation of the Role and Impact of Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacists in an Academic Comprehensive Cancer Center

Introduction: In recent years, there has been significant growth of ambulatory oncology pharmacy, yet there is a paucity of published studies on the clinical activities and impact of ambulatory oncology clinical pharmacists. At Duke Canc...

Using a Quality Improvement Model to Implement Distress Screening in a Community Cancer Setting

Background: Quality cancer care includes routine screening for psychosocial distress. This quality improvement project focused on the implementation of distress screening at a licensed affiliate of Cancer Support Community, a community-b...

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Advanced Practice Management From Presentation to Cure

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia in adults, diagnosed in approximately 21,450 individuals annually in the US with nearly 11,000 deaths attributable to this disease (National Cancer Institute, 2020). Acute my...

The Impact of Peripheral Cooling on Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: An Integrative Review

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a prevalent, potentially long-lasting side effect of select chemotherapies. It contributes to suboptimal chemotherapy dosing, and its symptoms negatively impact patients’ quality of li...

Oncology Advanced Practitioners and Breast Cancer Prevention

One in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Advanced practitioners in oncology can offer risk assessments, counseling, genetic testing, and make both behavioral and pharmacologic recommendations for breast cancer ri...

Voxelotor: A Hemoglobin S Polymerization Inhibitor for the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions of people throughout the world. Hemoglobin S (HbS) polymerization is the fundamental cause of SCD pathophysiology, which leads to hemolysis, increased viscosity, and acute vaso-occlusive episode...

Can You Diagnose the Cause of This Patient’s Diarrhea?

This article will review the case of a 53-year-old female with a diagnosis of metastatic esophageal cancer receiving treatment on a clinical trial protocol combining chemotherapy/immunotherapy with FOLFOX and nivolumab, who presents to t...

Abstracts From JADPRO Live 2020

The posters for the abstracts below can be found at eventscribe.com/2020/jadprolive/posters/posterWall.asp

Thank You to Our Peer Reviewers!