Oncology

grandma and I were very close, but in June of 2016, she passed away from multiple myeloma cancer. Before she passed away, my grandma said, “When you see a yellow butterfly, I want you to think of me”. Her death is what caused me to want to become an oncology radiologist. I want to be able to make an impact in people’s lives by aiding in the treatment of their cancer. Yellow butterflies have come into my life in many ways since my grandma passed away. One of the most significant events was when my

little over 1 million are diagnosed every year. For years Oncologist have been looking for treatments to cure this horrible disease(American Cancer Society, 2013). Chemistry has such a major impact on the research of cancer. The chemistry within Oncology & Cancer Research has greatly increased our knowledge and capabilities for developing new treatments or actually finding a significant cure (American Cancer Society,2013). This paper is explaining how chemistry is used to seek out cancer cells,

Background and Need Oncology is the study of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors and cancers. The oncology departments at Carolinas HealthCare System offers outpatient and inpatient facilities and provide treatment to patients with different types of cancers in rural and metropolitan areas of North and South Carolina. Cancer is an equal opportunity illness that can affect young people, older people, and everyone in between. Per the CDC, Cancer death rates are

translate cancer research to clinical success has been remarkably low1. Sadly, clinical trials in oncology have the highest failure rate compared with other therapeutic areas. Given the high unmet need in oncology, it is understandable that barriers to clinical development may be lower than for other disease areas, and a larger number of drugs with suboptimal preclinical validation will enter oncology trials. However, this low success rate is not

My father always tells me “In order to make life beautiful, never stop learning and helping.” I have always tried to follow his advice and thus have become a content individual. The Clinical Oncology Open Learning (COOL) Scholars Program is a method for me to follow his advice. Cancer is one of the fastest evolving diseases in medicine. Every week there is either a breakthrough in the study of cancer or there are minor cures discovered. As I have read, there is more energy invested in curing cancer

Pediatric oncology is a high acuity clinical field, where nurses experience loss and grief on daily bases. Due to the nature of their work, they experience intense stress, ethical dilemma, and poorer job performance, which effects their physical and psychological state (Conte, 2014). There was a study done in the children’s hospital located on the West Coast of U.S.A. targeting the experiences of pediatric oncology nurses to analyze their overall well-being affected by job related loss and

are unaware who is receiving which treatment, which avoids a potential bias. It has been a very effective method of research to evaluate the success of novel therapies in various studies. Nevertheless, this method is much more difficult to apply to oncology patients compared to patients with less serious conditions, such as migraines. While a placebo controlled trial provides a wonderful baseline and control for the study, it also means that those patients aren’t receiving any treatment. The placebo

radiology are Diagnostic, Interventional, and Radiation oncology. The Diagnostic imaging uses plain X-ray radiology, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and nuclear medicine imaging techniques to obtain images that are then interpreted to aid in the diagnosis of disease.

Five years from now I will be sixty years old. Many people think that at that age I should be planning for my retirement. I hope that my good health will continue and that I will have earned my DNP. I am planning to continue to work as a general oncology nurse navigator. I envision moving to part time status in five to seven years. I foresee the current navigation program growing. I hope we will have at least two more full time, disease specific navigators. Working as a navigator in a part time

ONCC(The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation),is a program that evaluated nurses for oncology certification. The mission statement is to promote excellence in patient care and professional practice by validating specialized knowledge in oncology nursing and related specialties”. The vision statement on the other hand states that oncology care across the continuum will be provided by oncology certified professionals. The values of the ONCC are the corporations guiding principles and they include