Plenary Session: Addressing Mental Health in Cancer Care: Optimizing Interdisciplinary Psychosocial Support
The early recognition and management of concerns related to mental health and well-being are vitally important for maintaining quality of life, health, and safety of patients with cancer and cancer survivors.
Dental Care for Patients with Cancer: What Oncologists Need to Know
Multiple dental issues can arise for patients with cancer throughout the continuum of cancer therapy. Clinicians must be familiar with the potential complications that can arise in the oral cavity from cancer treatment modalities in order to assist in the prevention and treatment of dental toxicities.
Best Practices for Oncology Urgent Care
Oncology urgent care is an emerging area of interest requiring many clinical and practical considerations for implementation. Education is needed on the value of offering oncology urgent care and the factors that lead to successful programs.
Advances in Antiemesis Management for Patients with Cancer
Recent clinical trials continue to enhance available data on the use of olanzapine for emesis prevention in parenteral anticancer agents with high and moderate emetogenic risk as well as for breakthrough treatment and an alternative to dexamethasone for delayed anticancer induced nausea/vomiting. Clinicians should be aware of these updates and how they apply to appropriate patients.
Ambulatory Care Models

As the landscape of cancer care evolves with more complicated and innovative therapies, how we deliver care is of utmost importance for the safety and quality of patient outcomes.

Remembrance and Renewal: A Holistic Self-Care Program for Oncology Clinicians
Consistent and organized emotional support programs for nurses and other oncology clinicians are lacking, even as the stress associated with patient care continues to increase. Incorporating these tactics into practice supports a balanced approach to dealing with the demands of caring for patients with cancer.
Financial Toxicity of Cancer Care
Gaps in knowledge for nurses may exist in financial aspects of cancer care, insurance coverage, understanding cultural and financial diversity of patients, and financial resources available to patients. Addressing these gaps can empower nurses to play a proactive role in assisting with financial toxicity which may improve patient care and treatment outcomes.
Unraveling Cancer Pain Dynamics (City of Hope)

The goal of this initiative is to provide education to clinicians, involved in the assessment and management of cancer pain in adult patients, on the appropriate and safe use of opioid analgesics, optimizing non-opioid analgesics and adjuvant medications, and integrating non-pharmacological appro

Unraveling Cancer Pain Dynamics (UColorado)

The goal of this initiative is to provide education to clinicians, involved in the assessment and management of cancer pain in adult patients, on the appropriate and safe use of opioid analgesics, optimizing non-opioid analgesics and adjuvant medications, and integrating non-pharmacological appro

Unraveling Cancer Pain Dynamics (Yale)

The goal of this initiative is to provide education to clinicians, involved in the assessment and management of cancer pain in adult patients, on the appropriate and safe use of opioid analgesics, optimizing non-opioid analgesics and adjuvant medications, and integrating non-pharmacological appro

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