Description

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Is the first book that is directed to nursing
Informs on how driver mutations drive treatment decisions in NSCLC and the application to care of patients
Provide nurses with the tools to educate patients about how to partner in safe targeted therapy for NSCLC

About the Author

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Dr. Marianne Davies is a graduate of Russell-Sage College (BSN), Yale University School of Nursing (MSN-Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist and Post-Masters-Acute Care Nurse Practitioner) and MGH Institute of Health Professions (DNP & Certificate of Teaching and Learning). She is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Yale School of Nursing, teaching in the Masters and Doctoral programs and coordinator of the Oncology Nurse Practitioner Concentration. She has a joint appointment at the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has been an Oncology Nurse Practitioner in Thoracic Medical Oncology for several years. Her areas of specialization are clinical trials of immunotherapy agents, targeted therapies and new drug development. Her specific concentration is the management of toxicities associated with immune and targeted therapeutics. She has authored several articles in peer reviewed journals as well as book chapters. She speaks nationally and internationally on the topics of lung cancer, treatment and management strategies. She is a member of the Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology (APSHO), Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), International Thoracic Oncology Nursing Forum (ITONF), Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) and Association of Community Care Centers Institute for Clinical Immuno-Oncology (ICLIO). Beth Eaby-Sandy is an oncology nurse practitioner working in the Abramson Cancer Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She has been in oncology fort 20 years, and has specialized in thoracic oncology as a nurse practitioner for the past 16 years. She serves as associate editor for the JADPRO journal, and is a reviewer for the Supportive Care in Cancer journal. She has published in several peer-reviewed nursing and medical journals as well as book chapters. She is an active member of IASLC and ITONF, serving on committees for both organizations, and a member of APSHO and SITC. She also speaks nationally and internationally on the topics of lung cancer and supportive care for oncology treatments.