Ep. 34 – CAR-T Continued! – Corissa Decker, BSN, RN, BMTCN

One episode simply wasn’t enough to contain all the goodness we learned from Corissa’s interview, so we’re back with part 2 on CAR-T cell therapy! Corissa Decker, BSN, RN, is a registered nurse from Fort Worth, Texas, practicing on a bone marrow transplant unit.  She graduated from Texas Christian University in 2017, & loves hanging […]

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Ep. 33 – CAR-T Cell Therapy with Corissa Decker, BSN, RN, BMTCN

Last week, I interviewed Lauren Miller, PT, DPT about what PTs should know about patients receiving CAR-T cell therapy. Today, I interviewed Corissa Decker, BSN, RN, BMTCN about the deeper details of CAR-T cell therapy, & boy, did I learn a lot! Since our last interview with Corissa, she’s earned her BMTCN (Blood & Marrow

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Ep. 32 – What does CAR-T mean for PTs? – Lauren Miller, PT, DPT

CAR-T cell therapy is a buzz phrase I’ve heard thrown around my house (by my sister & mom, both oncology nurses) for quite some time but didn’t really know a whole lot about. I definitely didn’t understand why I should care about it as an outpatient oncoPT until Lauren Miller’s presentation at CSM 2019. Now

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Ep. 31 – Are we forgetting these cancer care team members?

Continuing our celebration & honoring of survivors in today’s episode, we covered 5 cancer care team members that we might forgetting. It can be easy to get wrapped up in our #OncoPT world to the point we forget about other professionals who can serve our patients physically, emotionally, & mentally. While we as OncoPTs may

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Ep. 30 – Coping through Storytelling & Music – Carolyn Phillips, PhD, MSN, BSN

We continue the celebration of our survivors with today’s episode on coping, grieving, processing, storytelling, & music. As a part of caring for our survivors, sometimes we encounter grief & grieving, even outside of the death & dying experience. In order to care most effectively for our survivors, we have to process our grief in

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