Seminars in Oncology Nursing RSS feed: Current Issue. Seminars in Oncology Nursing is a quarterly journal for the dissemination of knowledge in the complex field of cancer nursing. The Journal contains topical reviews carefully prepared by selected experts. Each issue focuses on a specific topic, with the aim of comprehensive coverage. 2010 Topics , Volume 26, Issues 1-4 February Advances in Quality of Life Outcomes in Cancer Care: 1990 - 2010 May Living with Advanced Cancer August Vascular Access in Oncology Care November Palliative Care http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/?rss=yesElsevier Inc.en © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Seminars in Oncology Nursing0749-2081263August 2010 © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. healthpermissions@elsevier.comhttp://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS074920811000032X/abstract?rss=yesTHE FOCUS of the August 1998 issue of Seminars in Oncology Nursing was the nursing implications of metastatic disease. At the time, it seemed that the issue covered the most important elements of anticipating needs and planning nursing care around cancers that spread to regional and distant sites. Of the eight articles, one mentioned the possibility of a patient living months and years after the appearance of metastatic disease: in two short paragraphs, those authors described patient and family concerns and nurses' instrumental roles in coordinating community resources. Those two paragraphs provide the only evidence in the entire issue that people with advanced cancer could and often do – even in 1998 – live longer than a few weeks or months, and need care beyond palliative and end-of-life symptom management.IntroductionPamela J. Haylock10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.007Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1143143http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000331/abstract?rss=yesObjectives: To summarize the scientific and technologic advances contributing to the increasing number of people who are living with advanced cancer, associated economic costs, psychosocial burdens, and public policy.Data Sources: Published books and journal articles, web resources, newspapers and news magazines.Conclusion: Scientific and technologic advances, combined with unidentified inherent traits, allow some people with advanced cancer to live for varying and increasingly long periods of time. Public policy, provisions for care, and service delivery lag behind the science, thereby excluding this emerging population from the attention now being paid to survivors with potentially curable cancer.Implications for Nursing Practice: Nurses in clinical practice settings must be attuned to the unique needs associated with living with advanced cancer. Nurses in all settings must advocate for and participate in nursing research efforts to identify needs, gaps and shortcomings in care delivery, and development of interventions, services, programs, and resources to address the needs of this growing population. Finally, awareness that this population has unique needs and burdens prepares nurses to lead and/or participate in efforts to craft public policy that promotes optimal health and well-being among people living with advanced cancer.Advanced Cancer: Emergence of a New Survivor PopulationPamela J. Haylock10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.008Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1144150http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000318/abstract?rss=yesObjectives: To identify the informational needs of individuals living with advanced cancer, offer guidance to reliable and timely informational resources, and suggest ways in which communication among patients, family members, and health care providers can be optimized.Data Source: Published articles and research studies.Conclusion: Information and communication needs are problematic and common for people living with advanced cancer as they are frequently unable to find useful information. Health care professionals may lack effective communication skills that are suited to meet these patients' needs.Implications for Nursing Practice: Nursing practice can be significantly strengthened by an awareness of the information needs of this population, and the skills to communicate more effectively with people living with advanced cancer and their families.Information and Communication Needs of Individuals Living With Advanced CancerCarol Marcusen10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.006Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1151156http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000288/abstract?rss=yesObjectives: To discuss three contextual factors related to advanced cancer: socioeconomic status, race and racism, and religion and spirituality.Data Sources: Published qualitative research, quantitative research, journal articles.Conclusion: A diagnosis of advanced cancer in marginalized individuals means that people are diagnosed much later, do not have the social, political, and economic capital available to deal with the diagnosis, have more serious complications, and their quality of life is compounded by unequal quality of care.Implications to Nursing Practice: Examples are provided of successful evidenced-based strategies that can be extrapolated by nurses to a cancer population.Advanced Cancer in Underserved PopulationsMargaret Barton-Burke, Ebony Smith, Judith Frain, Cassandra Loggins10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.003Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1157167http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000276/abstract?rss=yesObjectives: To discuss issues related to symptom clusters in patients living with advanced cancer.Data Sources: Research and review articles.Conclusion: The importance for symptom cluster evaluation in oncology has been documented; however, there remain a number of inconsistencies in the literature as to the best way to accomplish this. Individuals living with advanced cancer are often dealing with symptoms from their disease, as well as prior and current therapies. Research related to patients receiving long-term cancer therapies and the symptom clusters experienced by this group of individuals is needed.Implications For Nursing Practice: Understanding the intricacies of symptom clusters in this population is an area for future research.Symptom Clusters in Individuals Living With Advanced CancerPeg Esper10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.002Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1168174http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000264/abstract?rss=yesObjectives: To provide an overview of the complex issues and communication needs of patients and families coping with advanced cancer and discuss issues related to their physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and emotional needs.Data Sources: Published articles and personal experience.Conclusion: The response to illness throughout the disease continuum is a dynamic process for both patient and caregiver. The nurse has a responsibility to be a patient advocate, and serve as a trusted caregiver and resource.Implications for Nursing Practice: Oncology nurses are in a pivotal position to assure that communication throughout the continuum demonstrates and incorporates awareness of patient and family beliefs and quality-of-life needs.Coping Issues Among People Living With Advanced CancerTani Bahti10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.001Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1175182http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000306/abstract?rss=yesObjectives: To present the nursing theory of Modeling and Role Modeling as a holistic theoretical basis for identifying needs, planning and implementing care and services, and measuring and enhancing outcomes of programs and interventions to meet the needs of people living with advanced cancer.Data Sources: Published books and journal articles, web resources, newspapers and current events magazines, and trade publications.Conclusion: The growing number of people living with advanced cancer has numerous unique, multi-dimensional, and interrelated needs that are underexplored, generally unmet, and require a holistic approach to be adequately addressed.Implications for Nursing Practice: Oncology nurses in clinical practice and research settings must be informed, aware of and prepared to assess and intervene to address the needs of the rapidly emerging subpopulation of cancer survivors. Using a holistic nursing theory promotes our understanding of human responses to illness and provides a way to holistically approach health, wellness, and healing among people living with advanced cancer.Advanced Cancer: A Mind-Body-Spirit Approach to Life and LivingPamela J. Haylock10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.005Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1183194http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS074920811000029X/abstract?rss=yesObjective: To present findings from two large surveys that explored the needs for information, emotional support, provision of services, perceptions, and attitudes of women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC).Data Sources: Published articles and surveys.Conclusion: Results from an online needs assessment of 618 women with MBC and a global survey of 1,342 women with MBC living in 13 countries interviewed following referral by their physicians revealed that the most urgent needs are for good, accurate, in-depth information about their disease, standard and emerging treatments, and ways of coping with side effects and symptoms.Implications for Nursing Practice: Much research has focused on coping with early breast cancer, but little has been studied about the needs and experiences of women living with MBC. Nurses can learn from what patients have told us about what they want, to better respond to these needs.Lessons Learned From the Metastatic Breast Cancer CommunityMusa Mayer10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.004Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1195202http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000380/abstract?rss=yesTable of Contents10.1016/S0749-2081(10)00038-0Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1FrontmatterA5A5http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000367/abstract?rss=yesMasthead10.1016/S0749-2081(10)00036-7Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1FrontmatterA6A6http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000379/abstract?rss=yesEditorial Board10.1016/S0749-2081(10)00037-9Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1FrontmatterA7A7http://www.seminarsoncologynursing.com/article/PIIS0749208110000392/abstract?rss=yesPublished Issues10.1016/S0749-2081(10)00039-2Seminars in Oncology Nursing 26, 3 (2010)2010-08-01Seminars in Oncology Nursing2010-08-01263S0749-2081(10)X0003-1FrontmatterA8A8