Resource Roundup: Summer 2024
We’re always scanning medical journals, practitioner magazines, cancer-focused blogs, and our partner websites for resources about this rare disease. Depending on where you are on your appendix cancer journey, you may be searching for information about current treatment practices, recovering well, and technology advancements showing promise in 2, 5, or 10 years. Be sure to check the footnotes references at the end of every reading. Here’s what we turned up this past week that may be of interest to you:
UPyTher aims to make peritoneal cancer treatable with a chemogel, company website, 6 July 2024
The impact of stage, grade, and mucinous histology on the efficacy of systemic chemotherapy in adenocarcinomas of the appendix: Analysis of the National Cancer Data Base, Various physicians, first published: 27 October 2015
Effective Cancer Pain Management Key to Maximizing Mobility in Cancer Patients, Oncology Nurse Advisor, 8 July 2024
Drug Shortages Still Affecting US Cancer Centers, Survey Shows, Oncology Nurse Advisor, 8 July 2024
TILT-123 Shows Early Activity in Advanced Cancers, Oncology Nurse Advisor, 17 April 2024
Dedicated Discovery, Oncology Nurse Advisor, 2015 October 1 (a patient invents a Jackson Pratt drain apron)
Krazati Plus Cetuximab Approved for KRAS G12C-Mutated Advanced Colorectal Cancer, Oncology Nurse Advisor, 2024 June 28
Investigating locations of recurrences with MRI after CRS-HIPEC for colorectal peritoneal metastases, European Journal of Radiology, 22 April 2024
Reduction of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV): A Pilot Study of Essential Oils in the Autologous Blood and Marrow Transplantation Population, Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, April 2023
The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Management of Appendiceal Neoplasms, Chicago Consensus Working Group, First published: 13 April 2020
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