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The Impact of a Follow-up Nursing Consultation in Lung Cancer Patients Receivin...
Almeida, Catarina; Chemela, RaquelThe use of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However, these medications are associated with significant and potentially debilitating immunerelated adverse events or even life-threatening. It is important for the health team, and particularly the nurse team, to recognize and manage toxicities early in order to limit severe toxicity and to enhance the patient’s quality of lif...
Nursing Best Practice Recommendations for Intravesical Instillation in Bladder ...
Ventura, Filipa; Azevedo Ribeiro, Vânia Maria; Vicente Claro, Inês Gonçalves; Teixeira dos Santos Silva, Armando Luís; Águas Afonso Silva, Ana RitaThe study aimed to translate and adapt best practice recommendations for intravesical instillation of antineoplastic therapy by the European Association of Urology Nurses to the Portuguese oncological context. The work followed the ADAPTE methodology, involving three phases (preparation, adaptation, and finalisation), including external review using the Delphi method. The translation and adaptation resulted in ...
Undervaluation of arthralgies: role of nurses in early immunotoxicity detection
Almeida, Catarina; Chemela, RaquelThe use of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However, these medications are associated with significant and potentially debilitating immune-related adverse events or even life threathing. While the majority of toxicities have been well studied, rheumatic complications have been less widely recognized and characterized. We describe a case study in which both performance stat...