Oncology Nursing Forum reviews
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas.
Oncologist-therapist team Bill & Susie Buchholz, authors of
Live Longer, Live Larger
give tools to patients for thriving with cancer:
Researching NHL.
This article discusses how to get information from NCI,
the internet, and medical research papers and textbooks; how
to find out about clinical trials and support groups; and how
to verify chemotherapy doses, interpret test results, and assess unproven
remedies.
If you are keeping up with all lymphoma research,
ACOR (Association of Cancer Online Resources) now has a
search feature to scan the MedLine literature
for recent additions in a
particular disease type. For recent articles, it's easier than
searching MedLine because you don't have to go in and set search
limits/dates.
If You're Hospitalized. There
are precautions you can take to make a hospital stay shorter and more
effective. Make the best of your stay with these tips.
Treating NHL: Specific
Classifications. This article describes generally accepted
standards of care for broad classes of NHL (as of January 1999).
Treating NHL: General
Information. Since the NHLs are a collection of diseases, they are
treated in a variety of ways. This article gives you an overview of current
treatments.
Late Effects, Late Complications. It
used to be that no one really worried about late effects of cancer
treatments--it was good enough if you survived the cancer. However, with
people living longer after treatment, there are enough survivors to see
patterns of late effects. Late effects are more profound for survivors of
childhood NHL, where treatments occur during development. However, all
survivors should be aware of late effect symptoms for which to seek
monitoring or treatment.
What to Expect During
Radiotherapy. This article describes a typical radiotherapy
experience, including: simulation, preparation, scheduling, arrival, the
setting, how radiation therapy is administered, dosages, and departure.