From Medscape Oncology

Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium (SCOS) 2019

October 25 - 26, 2019; San Francisco, California

October 25 - 26, 2019 San Francisco, California

SCOS 2019 Ask About Sex Life in Breast Cancer Patients on Endocrine Tx A new study shows that almost all postmenopausal women taking endocrine therapy to prevent breast cancer relapses report adverse effects on sexual function.
Medscape Medical News, October 31, 2019
SCOS 2019 Palliative Care Still Underutilized in Hematologic Malignancies The use of palliative in hematologic malignancies has been rising, but use is still low and occurs late.
Medscape Medical News, October 29, 2019
SCOS 2019 Massage Therapy Gives Relief From Chemo-Related Neuropathy Patients with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy who received massage therapy experienced symptomatic relief.
Medscape Medical News, October 28, 2019

Cancer Pain Control App Works -- Palliative Care for Everyone? Dramatically improved artificial intelligence holds promise for making palliative care services available anywhere, anytime for patients with advanced cancer pain.
Medscape Medical News, Nov 20, 2018
Immunotherapy Adverse Events More Common Than Initially Reported The rate of immunotherapy adverse events, as evidenced in real world data, is much higher than was previously reported in the pivotal clinical trials of these agents.
Medscape Medical News, Nov 19, 2018
Early Palliative Rehabilitation Improves QOL in Advanced Cancer A highly flexible intervention model in which patients selected their own outcome measures improved quality of life as compared with standard care.
Medscape Medical News, Nov 21, 2018

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