Communication

January 26, 2022

From the Co-Chairs, January 2022

Hopes for a return to normalcy in 2022—plus, recent qualitative research identifies surprising barriers to the long-term control of breast cancer
January 26, 2022

Come Again? Communicating Clearly About Risk of Recurrence After Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Mary Lou Smith and colleagues at the Research Advocacy Network recently explored how well patients with early-stage breast cancer understand risk of recurrence
September 30, 2021

From the Co-Chairs, September 2021

A focus on leukemia trials; an update regarding advanced practice providers; two important topics related to patient communication
September 30, 2021

A New Guide Encourages the Use of Language that is Respectful of Patients, Free of Stigma, Inclusive, and Equitable

A new Language Guide provides guidelines on best practices with common phrases to use during presentations at medical conferences and within submitted abstracts
September 30, 2021

Should Participants Know the Arm to Which They Were Assigned in a Randomized Clinical Trial?

The ethical imperative is that we must not treat the patient as a mere subject but as a participant partner, who therefore has rights to information about the trial to which they contributed