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“It’s been known for quite a while that [KRAS] is a mutation that leads to cancer development, but
“There have been many changes since the ’70s that have shaped the nurse’s role in administering chem
“And so you have different kinds of hazards with the drugs that you’re using. That means that in
“I genuinely think nurses and pharmacists need to know why these medicines are called hedgehog in
“You can give someone a survivorship care plan, but just giving them doesn’t mean that it’s going
“The response was, in my opinion, sort of overwhelmingly positive. I think all of us old-timers wh
“Now, what we found is that epigenetics is actually heritable and it’s actually reversible. And w
“It is very much a collaborative group process. There are group meetings where we come to consens
“This is what totally drives the treatment decisions, and that’s why having that pathology report wh
“What I find most rewarding is connecting with nurses, who now understand the risks of exposure and
“We know that some women are going to get called back. And it’s just because usually they can’t see
"If you take your normal radiation oncology experience, as we know in radiation oncology, radiations
"In B cell malignancies, BTKi inhibits that BTK enzyme which is very upstream. It tells NF-κB to sto
“The statistic you always kind of want to keep in the back of your brain is that over a lifetime, on
“Who would think that we would be here 50 years later? And with the excitement that I think will bui
“There’s actually quite a bit of debate about what the clinical definition of cancer cachexia is, bu
“The Leadership Development Committee (LDC) is one of the most important member volunteer positions
“Key thing here is that it was discovered that when you have gene amplification of HER2 you get a re
