Dennise Geiger Discusses Telephone Triage in Cancer Care
Dennise Geiger, RN, Regional Cancer Care Associates, Central Jersey Division, discusses difficulties nurses face when using telephone triage, and the plan that was developed to better streamline the process.
Dennise Geiger, RN, Regional Cancer Care Associates, Central Jersey Division, discusses difficulties nurses face when using telephone triage, and the plan that was developed to better streamline the process.
Geiger conducted a study on managing chemotherapy side effects through telephone triage and found that there are some difficulties assessing a patient over the phone, where the nurse cannot see the patient’s symptoms. So, Geiger and her team created an algorithm of questions to more clearly see what the patient is going through and what next steps for treatment should be.
Olaparib Plus Chemo May Not Improve Outcomes vs Chemo Alone in BRCA Wild-Type TNBC
April 23rd 2024Patients with BRCA wild-type triple-negative breast cancer treated with olaparib on a gap schedule with chemotherapy did not experience improved responses compared with chemotherapy alone in the neoadjuvant setting.
