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With this year’s close, the end of an era
This is the final issue of
JCSO was one of the few publications to span clinical and supportive care and to reach out to the entire oncology care team – oncologists, supportive care specialists, advanced practice providers, and pharmacists. Patients – their needs, concerns, and well-being – were always at the forefront of our thinking when we planned our issues. In the 2016 survey, our readers told us that they read the journal mainly to learn about clinical and supportive developments (72% and 57% of respondents, respectively), and almost 60% indicated that they routinely used information presented in our articles in their practice. To achieve those goals, we drew on the expertise and steady guidance of many over the course of our lifetime and we owe a deep gratitude to our editors emeriti, Lee Schwartzberg, MD, (Community Oncology) and Michael Fisch, MD, and Jamie von Roenn, MD (JSO), as well as the associate editors, members of the editorial advisory board, reviewers, authors, and of course, you, the reader.
I’d like specifically to thank the incumbent editors, Jame Abraham, MD; Howard Burris, MD; David Cella, PhD; Kevin Knopf, MD; and Thomas Strouse, MD for their support and invaluable contributions in recent years. Thank you too, to past associate editors Linda Bosserman, MD, (
Looking ahead
From January 2019, JCSO’s sister publications,
In this issue
We end with a bumper crop of articles, beginning with a report by Hedden and colleagues on page e234 describing how they developed, implemented, and evaluated a supportive care program for patients with prostate cancer. That is followed by a literature-based review article by Ibrahim colleagues detailing the effectiveness of duloxetine in the treatment of painful chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (p. e243). In the original research section, on page e250, Palmisiano and colleagues report on mortality outcomes in hospitalized patients with cancer after rapid response team activation; Jeurkar and colleagues compare risk models guiding growth factor use in chemotherapy (p. e256); and Chao and colleagues describe the symptom burdens associated with chemotherapy-induced anemia in patients with late-stage cancer (e260).
Challenging and elusive are the key words in this issue's Case Reports in which Pollock and colleagues describe the difficulties in managing a cetuximab rash (p. e272), Roberts and colleagues write about elevated liver function tests in a patient on palbociclib and fulvestrant (p. e277), and Mukherjee and colleagues describe a patient with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, who presented both a diagnostic and management challenge for the care team (p. e280). Turn to page e283, where our regular contributor, Jane de Lartigue, has written an in-depth review on everything you need to know about biosimilars. Susan London follows up on page e290 with an article on findings from studies on biosimilars for 3 oncology drugs that were reported at this year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr de Lartigue also reports on the approval of dabrafenib and trametinib for BRAF-mutant melanoma (e228) and osimertinib for advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (p. e231).
And finally…
I wish you and your colleagues and families all good things for the coming year. Thank you and goodbye – and stay in touch by downloading my podcast!
This is the final issue of
JCSO was one of the few publications to span clinical and supportive care and to reach out to the entire oncology care team – oncologists, supportive care specialists, advanced practice providers, and pharmacists. Patients – their needs, concerns, and well-being – were always at the forefront of our thinking when we planned our issues. In the 2016 survey, our readers told us that they read the journal mainly to learn about clinical and supportive developments (72% and 57% of respondents, respectively), and almost 60% indicated that they routinely used information presented in our articles in their practice. To achieve those goals, we drew on the expertise and steady guidance of many over the course of our lifetime and we owe a deep gratitude to our editors emeriti, Lee Schwartzberg, MD, (Community Oncology) and Michael Fisch, MD, and Jamie von Roenn, MD (JSO), as well as the associate editors, members of the editorial advisory board, reviewers, authors, and of course, you, the reader.
I’d like specifically to thank the incumbent editors, Jame Abraham, MD; Howard Burris, MD; David Cella, PhD; Kevin Knopf, MD; and Thomas Strouse, MD for their support and invaluable contributions in recent years. Thank you too, to past associate editors Linda Bosserman, MD, (
Looking ahead
From January 2019, JCSO’s sister publications,
In this issue
We end with a bumper crop of articles, beginning with a report by Hedden and colleagues on page e234 describing how they developed, implemented, and evaluated a supportive care program for patients with prostate cancer. That is followed by a literature-based review article by Ibrahim colleagues detailing the effectiveness of duloxetine in the treatment of painful chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (p. e243). In the original research section, on page e250, Palmisiano and colleagues report on mortality outcomes in hospitalized patients with cancer after rapid response team activation; Jeurkar and colleagues compare risk models guiding growth factor use in chemotherapy (p. e256); and Chao and colleagues describe the symptom burdens associated with chemotherapy-induced anemia in patients with late-stage cancer (e260).
Challenging and elusive are the key words in this issue's Case Reports in which Pollock and colleagues describe the difficulties in managing a cetuximab rash (p. e272), Roberts and colleagues write about elevated liver function tests in a patient on palbociclib and fulvestrant (p. e277), and Mukherjee and colleagues describe a patient with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, who presented both a diagnostic and management challenge for the care team (p. e280). Turn to page e283, where our regular contributor, Jane de Lartigue, has written an in-depth review on everything you need to know about biosimilars. Susan London follows up on page e290 with an article on findings from studies on biosimilars for 3 oncology drugs that were reported at this year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr de Lartigue also reports on the approval of dabrafenib and trametinib for BRAF-mutant melanoma (e228) and osimertinib for advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (p. e231).
And finally…
I wish you and your colleagues and families all good things for the coming year. Thank you and goodbye – and stay in touch by downloading my podcast!
This is the final issue of
JCSO was one of the few publications to span clinical and supportive care and to reach out to the entire oncology care team – oncologists, supportive care specialists, advanced practice providers, and pharmacists. Patients – their needs, concerns, and well-being – were always at the forefront of our thinking when we planned our issues. In the 2016 survey, our readers told us that they read the journal mainly to learn about clinical and supportive developments (72% and 57% of respondents, respectively), and almost 60% indicated that they routinely used information presented in our articles in their practice. To achieve those goals, we drew on the expertise and steady guidance of many over the course of our lifetime and we owe a deep gratitude to our editors emeriti, Lee Schwartzberg, MD, (Community Oncology) and Michael Fisch, MD, and Jamie von Roenn, MD (JSO), as well as the associate editors, members of the editorial advisory board, reviewers, authors, and of course, you, the reader.
I’d like specifically to thank the incumbent editors, Jame Abraham, MD; Howard Burris, MD; David Cella, PhD; Kevin Knopf, MD; and Thomas Strouse, MD for their support and invaluable contributions in recent years. Thank you too, to past associate editors Linda Bosserman, MD, (
Looking ahead
From January 2019, JCSO’s sister publications,
In this issue
We end with a bumper crop of articles, beginning with a report by Hedden and colleagues on page e234 describing how they developed, implemented, and evaluated a supportive care program for patients with prostate cancer. That is followed by a literature-based review article by Ibrahim colleagues detailing the effectiveness of duloxetine in the treatment of painful chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (p. e243). In the original research section, on page e250, Palmisiano and colleagues report on mortality outcomes in hospitalized patients with cancer after rapid response team activation; Jeurkar and colleagues compare risk models guiding growth factor use in chemotherapy (p. e256); and Chao and colleagues describe the symptom burdens associated with chemotherapy-induced anemia in patients with late-stage cancer (e260).
Challenging and elusive are the key words in this issue's Case Reports in which Pollock and colleagues describe the difficulties in managing a cetuximab rash (p. e272), Roberts and colleagues write about elevated liver function tests in a patient on palbociclib and fulvestrant (p. e277), and Mukherjee and colleagues describe a patient with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, who presented both a diagnostic and management challenge for the care team (p. e280). Turn to page e283, where our regular contributor, Jane de Lartigue, has written an in-depth review on everything you need to know about biosimilars. Susan London follows up on page e290 with an article on findings from studies on biosimilars for 3 oncology drugs that were reported at this year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr de Lartigue also reports on the approval of dabrafenib and trametinib for BRAF-mutant melanoma (e228) and osimertinib for advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (p. e231).
And finally…
I wish you and your colleagues and families all good things for the coming year. Thank you and goodbye – and stay in touch by downloading my podcast!
David Henry's JCSO podcast, March-April 2018
In his bimonthly podcast, Dr David Henry, the JCSO Editor-in-Chief, discusses the approval of the biosimilars, bevacizumab-awwb and trastuzumab-dkst, and new therapies for virally associated cancers. Also in the line-up are an interview with Dr Daniel Haller on the latest advances in treating gastrointestinal cancers, and an article on hands-on advice on integrating survivorship care planning in a radiation oncology workflow. Research topics incude how to improve communication between oncology care providers and patient caregivers during hospice; the impact of patient education on enrollment in clinical trials; and organizational barriers to optimal lung cancer care in the community setting. A series of Case Reports that highlight some of the clincial challenges in treating patients with cancer round out the issue.
Listen to the podcast below
In his bimonthly podcast, Dr David Henry, the JCSO Editor-in-Chief, discusses the approval of the biosimilars, bevacizumab-awwb and trastuzumab-dkst, and new therapies for virally associated cancers. Also in the line-up are an interview with Dr Daniel Haller on the latest advances in treating gastrointestinal cancers, and an article on hands-on advice on integrating survivorship care planning in a radiation oncology workflow. Research topics incude how to improve communication between oncology care providers and patient caregivers during hospice; the impact of patient education on enrollment in clinical trials; and organizational barriers to optimal lung cancer care in the community setting. A series of Case Reports that highlight some of the clincial challenges in treating patients with cancer round out the issue.
Listen to the podcast below
In his bimonthly podcast, Dr David Henry, the JCSO Editor-in-Chief, discusses the approval of the biosimilars, bevacizumab-awwb and trastuzumab-dkst, and new therapies for virally associated cancers. Also in the line-up are an interview with Dr Daniel Haller on the latest advances in treating gastrointestinal cancers, and an article on hands-on advice on integrating survivorship care planning in a radiation oncology workflow. Research topics incude how to improve communication between oncology care providers and patient caregivers during hospice; the impact of patient education on enrollment in clinical trials; and organizational barriers to optimal lung cancer care in the community setting. A series of Case Reports that highlight some of the clincial challenges in treating patients with cancer round out the issue.
Listen to the podcast below