26 Sep 2025 07:00
Episode 382: Radiation Oncology Treatment Care for Pediatric Patients
"I think sometimes people don't expect pediatric patients to handle radiation as well as they do. They may have a family member who also had radiation for breast cancer or for prostate cancer and they were an older adult and had really severe side effects. And then they say, 'Oh, no, I've got to put my little baby through this. I don't really want to do this.' We say kids are very different in how they handle this. They're very resilient, so we can provide good education about that," Elizabeth Cummings, MSN, CPNP-AC, CPHON®, radiation oncology nurse practitioner at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a conversation about radiation treatment care for pediatric patients.
Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod
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Learning outcome: Learner will report an increase in knowledge related to radiation oncology treatment care for pediatric patients.
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