Clinical research: Understanding the importance of nursing in precision medicine
Nurses should prepare for their changing roles as precision medicine and clinical research become more mainstream.
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Category: Clinical Care
Cancer predisposition: early conversations set expectations for future findings
Genome analysis has dramatically increased our understanding of childhood cancer and cancer predisposition. But future discovery also affects patients from the past as well as generations in the future. Early communication with patients and families is critical to respecting their wishes in the future.
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Teens and Twenties: St. Jude aims to improve psychosocial well-being of adolescents and young adults with cancer
Teens have unique psychosocial needs: Read how clinicians and support staff are meeting those needs for teens and young adults who have cancer.
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Sailing uncharted waters: Patient navigator helps patients transition to St. Jude affiliates
Patient navigators help families and patients make a transition from St. Jude to their affiliate clinic at home.
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CRNA Week celebrates the nurse anesthetists who are always there, for every heartbeat
CRNAs are celebrating their profession and their passion this week. These advanced practice providers combine the science of anesthesiology with the compassion of nursing to help ensure safe anesthesia at St. Jude.
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The emotional toll of pediatric oncology
One pediatric oncologist shares what it means to care for cancer patients.
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Survivorship studies dig in on data
Two survivorship studies are revealing valuable information about late effects of pediatric cancer treatment through data on the health of childhood cancer survivors.
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Helping patients weigh their options
Surviving cancer can cause health issues down the road, and one of the biggest concerns can be starting a family.
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Having those critical conversations about fertility after cancer
As survival rates increase for childhood cancer patients, clinicians are seeing late effects of therapy – and they’re doing something about it.
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Memphis to Myanmar: A Year in the life of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer
Catherine Lam, MD, of St. Jude Global, has spent a year in Geneva—and in airports—enrolling low- and middle-income countries into the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer to help them improve access to care.
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Highlighting the worldwide childhood cancer problem and how St. Jude is working toward a solution
St. Jude and the WHO are collaborating to reach and cure more pediatric cancer patients across the globe.
Read MoreLet’s cross that bridge now: having ‘what if’ conversations with patients and families
Justin Baker, MD, pediatric oncologist at St. Jude, gives advice on how to have difficult conversations with patients and their families. He calls them, “what if” conversations.
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