Oncology Nursing Society

SAN DIEGO — Insurers rejected one-third of new prescriptions for specialty oral anticancer medications ordered for patients with blood cancers, according to retrospective data presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition. Patients with commercial insurance and Medicaid had prescriptions rejected more often than patients with Medicare.

Among patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer, long-term survival was better with lobectomy or segmentectomy vs. wedge resection, according to results presented at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting.

One in eight women will suffer from breast cancer in their lifetime. Eight percent will decline treatment due to the fear of alopecia.

Early receipt of palliative care appeared linked to less aggressive end-of-life care for women with ovarian cancer, according to study results.

Spiritual beliefs and lack of trust in clinical research may influence Black individuals’ decisions about whether to participate in cancer trials, according to findings presented at American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting.

Patients with cancer who received immune checkpoint inhibitors exhibited increased risk for psoriasis compared with those treated with chemotherapy or targeted therapy.

When referring to individuals with cancer, emphasizing the person rather than the condition improves patient morale and refocuses clinicians on the mission of patient-centered care, according to an opinion paper published in JAMA Oncology.

People with head and neck cancer experience depression twice as often as those with other types of cancer, according to results of a retrospective study.

Most counties in the United States do not have active cancer clinical trials, according to results of an ASCO analysis.

A meta-analysis of patients who underwent chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for advanced blood cancers showed low prevalence of cardiovascular adverse events.