Supportive Care   

This includes handling saliva, vomit, sweat, vaginal secretions, semen, urine, and stool. Are there recommendations for intimacy, sex, laundry, and&nb...

Is there concern for impaired healing? Do you pause therapy and for how long?

Do you prescribe creams (e.g., urea) to prevent HFS, or is their use generally more reactive? 

If you do test, do you have a preferred testing method?

After optimizing symptoms and reversible factors, and attempting cognitive-behavioral interventions and exercise, do you recommend pharmacologic agent...

What steroid-sparing strategies do you use?

What advice do you give regarding dietary practices, feeding tubes / parenteral nutrition, and pharmacotherapy specifically for cachexia?

Can it be prevented? How do you evaluate patients? What non-pharmacologic or pharmacologic interventions do you use for treatment?

There are conflicting reports of increased incidence of bleomycin-induced lung toxicity with G-CSF.

Obviously, patient and caregiver preferences are paramount. But, what factors do you consider? Does expanded hospice (e.g., Medicare Care Choices) inf...

What factors other than the Khorana score influence your decision regarding prophylactic anticoagulation in these patients? If prescribing an agent, w...

Is there specific workup you perform? Are there preventive measures? Once established, are there non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments yo...

Is dental evaluation indicated for edentulous patients?

How would you manage symptoms? How would you adjust the adjuvant regimen (dose reduce, omit paclitaxel etc)? What strategies would you consider for pr...

e.g., subungual hemorrhage and onycholysis?

i.e. doxorubicin, ifosfamide + RT. Do you worry about decreased locoregional control or increased toxicities with the use of G-CSF in combination with...

In patients who continue to have insomnia despite diphenhydramine, benzos, and trazodone, are there other evidence based treatments that are helpful?

In addition to gabapentin and Lyrica, what else can you do for chemotherapy induced neuropathy?

If yes, what dosage and do you use it continuously or intermittently? Regarding provera, many patients with ER/PR (+) breast cancer worry about taking...

What is your treatment algorithm?

Many women are distressed when asked to discontinue hormone replacement therapy or use intravaginal estrogen suppositories.

We often counsel patients that they shouldn't take very high doses of antioxidants but taking a daily multivitamin with antioxidants is OK. Do you thi...