Episode 273: Updates in Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s really an exciting time to be in the field of oncology because we can have these specific drugs that target these specific variants rather than, back in the day, when we had to use kind of generic cancer therapies that weren’t specific for an individual’s cancer,” ONS member Suzanne Walker, PhD, CRNP, AOCN^®, senior advanced practice provider and coordinator for thoracic malignancies at the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS^®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a discussion about the latest updates in chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatments. Walker is one of the editors of ONS’s second edition of the <em>Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice</em> book. You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and completing the evaluation linked below.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Music Credit: “<a href= "http://www.incompetech.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Fireflies and Stardust</a>” by Kevin MacLeod</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Earn 0.75 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD), which may be applied to the treatment <a href="https://www.oncc.org/ilna">ILNA category</a>, by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at <a href= "http://myoutcomes.ons.org/">myoutcomes.ons.org</a> by August 18, 2025. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of NCPD by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Learning outcome: The learner will report an increase in knowledge related to updates in chemotherapy and immunotherapy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Episode Notes</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNorma