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The Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators^® (AONN+) is proud to announce that it has been granted membership in the American College of Surgeon’s Commission on Cancer.

Lymphomas are a group of blood cancers that originate in the lymphatic system. The primary function of this system is to help the body fight infection.

The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) uses the definition of oncology nurse navigator (ONN) to include a professional registered nurse with oncology-specific clinical knowledge.

There is nothing that pulls at my heart strings more than the sight of a young child dealing with a diagnosis of cancer. This issue of Conquering the Cancer Care Continuum™ focuses on pediatric cancer care, a challenging area of oncology management, but one in which amazing progress is being made.

The birth of the pediatric hematology/oncology specialty can be traced back to the early part of the 20th century, when pediatricians began describing hematologic abnormalities in infants and children.

As a practitioner in adult oncology, it is only on rare occasions that I see pediatric patients managed in our clinic. Generally speaking, such patients seen in this setting are mid-adolescents with diagnoses of Hodgkin lymphoma who are being treated with a standard adult regimen.

Cure rates for children with cancer now exceed 80% in high-income countries (HIC), but several challenges remain.

We have been hearing about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for quite a while. However, many are still confused as to what this law is trying to accomplish and how it will benefit various populations of patients across the United States.

In 2010, Congress passed (and the President signed into law) comprehensive healthcare legislation called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or as it is more commonly known, the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

In the spring of 2008, while I was finishing my oncology pharmacy residency training, I had the opportunity to spend a month in a prominent urban hospital very well known for its indigent patient population.