Metastatic Breast Cancer with Mikel Ross

This week on the podcast we are joined by Mikel Ross to discuss metastatic breast cancer along with its advancements and treatments. Mikel Ross, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC, OCN, CBCN is a board certified nurse practitioner on the breast medicine service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In this role, he collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to deliver medical oncology care to people with breast cancer across the continuum of care. In addition to patient care, he collaborates on many initiatives, including oral oncolytic adherence, proactive management of symptomatic patients, and most notably is the lead clinician for Memorial Sloan Kettering’s scalp cooling program, designed to limit chemotherapy induced hair loss. He has published articles on the topics of scalp cooling, oral medication adherence, and proactive management of patient symptoms in oncology practice.