EDITOR'S NOTE
Love and courage
Neil Love, MD

FACULTY INTERVIEWS
Patient Case Summaries

  • A patient’s experience with chemotherapy
  • Clinical experience with gefitinib
  • A patient’s role in proactively augmenting her healthcare
  • Paul Chrystal: Coping with the possibility of losing a second wife to lung cancer
  • Life-transforming role of cancer
  • Hopefulness and the development of new approaches in cancer treatment
Excerpts from the Audio Program
  • Comparison of small cell and non-small cell lung cancer
  • Smoking histories in patients with lung cancer
  • Self-blame and isolation associated with lung cancer
  • Patients with advanced disease who cannot tolerate chemotherapy
  • Chemotherapy-associated side effects
  • Educating patients about adjuvant chemotherapy
  • Educating patients about the side effects associated with a platinum agent
  • Educating patients with locally advanced disease
  • Radiation pneumonitis
  • Gefitinib-associated side effects
  • Management of gefitinib-associated rash
  • Management of gefitinib-associated diarrhea
  • Educating patients with Stage IV disease treated with gefitinib
  • Counseling patients about the potential benefits of gefitinib
  • Rapidity of symptom improvement with gefitinib
  • Duration of benefit with gefitinib

Editor's Office

Continuing Education (CE) Information

Faculty Disclosures

 
 
 

EDITOR
Neil Love, MD

FACULTY
Mark G Kris, MD
Ann Culkin, RN, OCN
Leslie B Tyson, MS, APN-BC, OCN

With comments from
a lung cancer patient
and her husband