This presentation will provide the basics for lung cancer patient care with updated guidelines and needs prior to starting the treatment process. We will start with symptoms leading to diagnosis and the steps that one will go through to obtain accurate information to start treatment. It is an ever-evolving process with lung cancer to help increase survival and quality of life.

An overview of genitourinary oncology, including a discussion of prostate, bladder, kidney, and testis cancers and associated oncology-related professions, as well as a discussion of the needs specific to genitourinary oncology patients

This lecture provides an overview of the types of cancers experienced by pediatric patients, and includes a discussion of the treatment options, management of side effects, and the emotional needs of patients and their family. The presentation also includes a review of pediatric patient outcomes with various therapies and a discussion of the importance of collaboration and teamwork in enhancing the quality of care and outcomes.

Lecture Objectives
-Describe the types, stages and diagnostic tests available for treating pediatric cancer patients.
-Discuss the treatment options, management of side effects and emotional needs of pediatric cancer
patients and their families.
-Review pediatric patient outcomes with therapy.
-Discuss the importance of collaboration and teamwork to enhance quality of care and patient
outcomes. This includes an emphasis on the family for pediatric patients.

How to care for the breast cancer patient using multiple modalities; medical oncology, surgical oncology, and radiation oncology, with a brief examination of chemotherapy side effects and financial toxicities of treatment, a lecture for nursing students. The lecture will include diagnostic vs screening mammograms, biopsies, excisional biopsy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, lymph node management and lymphedema prevention, and management. Discussion will cover pre-op and post-op management. Lecture will not cover breast reconstruction.

This lecture provides an overview of breast cancer types and stages and the diagnostic tests available for treating breast cancer patients. Information is included about the treatment options, management of side effects, and emotional needs of patients. The lecture also discusses the importance of collaboration and teamwork to enhance quality of care and patient outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:
• Describe the types, stages and diagnostic tests available for treating breast cancer patients.
• Discuss the treatment options, management of side effects, and emotional needs of patients with breast cancer.
• Discuss the importance of collaboration and teamwork to enhance quality of care and patient outcomes.

This lecture provides an overview of lung cancer types and stages and the diagnostic tests available for treating lung cancer patients. Information is included about the treatment options, management of side effects, and emotional needs of patients. The lecture also discusses the importance of collaboration and teamwork to enhance quality of care and patient outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:
• Describe the types, stages and diagnostic tests available for treating lung cancer patients.
• Discuss the treatment options, management of side effects, and emotional needs of patients with lung cancer.
• Discuss the importance of collaboration and teamwork to enhance quality of care and patient outcomes.

This lecture provides an overview of prostate cancer, stages and the diagnostic tests available for treating prostate cancer patients. Information is included about the treatment options, management of side effects, and emotional needs of patients. The lecture also discusses the importance of collaboration and teamwork to enhance quality of care and patient outcomes.

Lecture Objectives
-Describe the types, stages and diagnostic tests available for treating prostate cancer patients.
-Discuss the treatment options, management of side effects and emotional needs of patients with prostate cancer.
-Discuss the importance of collaboration and teamwork to enhance quality of care and patient outcomes.

We will provide an introduction to blood cancers including risk factors, epidemiology, presenting symptoms, general treatment, and caregiver and survivorship issues. We will also discuss the multidisciplinary approach to taking care of patients with hematologic malignancies.

This lecture provides an overview of the world of resources that are available to patients and care givers who are navigating a cancer experience.

Lecture Objectives
-Define the different types of cancer treatment facilities available in North Carolina.
-Explain how to select credible resources and utilize them in the most effective way possible.
-Describe the types of resources that are available to the NC cancer patient, including:
-Pharmacy assistance/medication assistance programs for different types of cancer.
-Benefits and financial resources (Medicaid, Medicare, Disability and grants).
-Legal resources.
-Psycho-social cancer support and survivorship programs.

This presentation discusses the end-of-life care options that are available to patients experiencing cancer. The presenter also discuss resources that are available to family members during the cancer journey.

This presentation discusses the end-of-life care options that are available to patients experiencing cancer. The presenter also discuss resources that are available to family members during the cancer journey.

Lecture Objectives:
-Distinguish between the palliative care and hospice care services that are available to cancer patients.
-Define the providers, admittance requirements, care structure, and expense coverage available for palliative and hospice care services.
-Discuss the importance of collaboration and teamwork to enhance quality of end-of-life care for cancer patients.
-Identify resources that are available to patients and families to learn more about palliative and hospice care services.

Daniel Clarke-Pearson, MD, and Lyn Filip, RN, BSN, OCN, will discuss the multidisciplinary management and care of women with gynecologic cancers (cervix, uterine and ovarian cancer). The lecture will incorporate anatomy, incidence, risk factors, early signs, spread of cancer and the first visit to a gynecologic oncologist for women with endometrial, ovarian and cervical cancers.

An introductory course on radiation oncology and its role in conjunction with surgery and systemic therapy in multidisciplinary cancer care. A broad overview of a variety of indications for radiation, logistics of radiation treatment delivery, and side effects of treatment.

Unintended weight loss and anorexia in patients with cancer is associated with decreased performance status, reduced response and tolerance to treatment, decreased survival, and reduced quality of life. This lecture discusses the importance of proactive nutritional interventions vital to improving patient outcomes.

Hospice and palliative care are health care services created during the past 40 years to meet the needs of patients living with serious illness, including cancer, and their families. Delivered by teams of interdisciplinary health professionals, these services improve the quality of life and care of patients. This lecture will discuss the development of palliative care and hospice, the components of these services and their outcomes for patients and families and the careers available to health care professionals dedicated to serving patients with cancers of all ages.

This lecture provides an overview of the role of nutrition in cancer prevention, treatment, and survivorship.

Lecture Objectives
-Describe the link between diet and cancer development.
-Understand the role of a Registered Dietitian for management of treatment-related side effects.
-Identify specific diet recommendations for cancer survivorship.

This presentation discusses the psychosocial needs of patients experiencing cancer. In also includes information about resources that are available to family members during the cancer journey.

Lecture Objectives:
-Describe the spectrum of psychosocial needs for individuals experiencing cancer during diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship or end-of-life care.
-Define the role that mental health professionals play in meeting the psychosocial needs of cancer patients.
-Discuss professional services that are available to patients and their families during a cancer experience.
-Discuss the importance of collaboration and teamwork in meeting the psychosocial needs of cancer patients.

Dental x-rays are generated in the dental x-ray tube. Through this animated learning object, students will learn the steps in x-ray generation from turning on the x-ray unit to exposing the dental x-ray film.

The tubehead is a sealed, heavy metal housing that contains the x-ray tube that produces dental x-rays. This learning object will provide students with practice identifying and labeling the dental x-ray tubehead.

In this learning object, learners will follow the illness of an 83-year-old woman, noting changes in her condition and ordering the appropriate medical imaging studies needed to inform her physicians about both her progress and her treatment options.