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List of publications related to the care for older persons with cancer by SIOG Nursing and Allied Health members (August-October 2021): Ashing KT, Ragin C, Ariyo O, Amini A. Thoughts and Consideration Regarding Immigrant Clinicians: Is Cultural Preservation Influencing Providers' Practice in HPV Vaccination? Cancer Invest. 2021:1-4. Ashing KT, Ragin C, Ariyo O, Amini A, George M, Ford J. Thoughts and consideration regarding immigrant clinicians: is cultural preservation influencing providers' practice in HPV vaccination. Cancer Causes Control. 2021;32(10):1043-5. Ashing KT, Yeung S, Lai L, Young L, Wong AG. A preliminary prospective study of health-related quality of life among Chinese-American breast cancer survivors. Support Care Cancer. 2021;29(10):6021-30. Chung V, Sun V, Ruel N, Smith TJ, Ferrell BR. Improving Palliative Care and Quality of Life in Pancreatic Cancer Patients. J Palliat Med. 2021. Cidav Z, Marcus S, Mandell D, Hornbrook MC, Mo JJ, Sun V, et al. Programmatic Costs of the [...]

Written by Dr. Fay Strohschein, SIOG NAH Governance group member This year, the Joint SIOG NAH/CANO/EONS session at the SIOG Annual Conference, chaired and organized by Dr. Martine Puts, focused on educating, empowering, and enacting change. Four speakers provided insight into geriatric oncology educational initiatives for nurses Dr. Sincere McMillan, a nurse practitioner in the Geriatric Medicine Department at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in the United States, shared her work educating advance practice providers (APP), including nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Referring to their recent study demonstrating that geriatric co-management was associated with 57% lower risk of 90 day mortality after cancer surgery,1 Dr. McMillan highlighted the need to improve these competencies among APP, particularly considering the anticipated lack of geriatricians. To inform APP educational initiatives, they conducted a learning needs survey, assessed feasibility of an APP geriatric oncology education program at MSKCC, and developed a [...]