ONS Connect - September 2008 - (Page 14)

YOuTElluS What Are Your Successful Prostate Cancer Screening Strategies? free Screening Event Draws almost 1,000 men he Dean and Betty Gallo Prostate Cancer Center at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, in conjunction with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, holds a free prostate cancer screening every September for three nights. We started with around 150 men, and during the past two years, we screened close to 1,000 men. We work closely with the community clergy and organizations to help spread the word. We have area radio stations place public service announcements on the air. The screenings, food, educational information, and giveaways are all free. The men heard about our 2007 screening in the following manner. • Radio (46%) • Attended a previous screening (16%) T • • • • • • • • • Newspaper (10%) Friend or family (9%) Church or civic organization (4%) Flyer (4%) Hospital newsletter (3%) Other (3%) Banner in New Brunswick (2%) Internet (1%) Physicians or health fairs (0%) Betty Gallo Director of Public Outreach and Government Affairs Dean and Betty Gallo Prostate Cancer Center The Cancer Institute of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 1. Select a date; coordinate the date with physicians, phlebotomists, and volunteers. 2. Advertise a phone number so patients can call in to make an appointment. 3. We front load many appointments (have several come at the same time). 4. We have the flow predesigned: Patients check in, get blood drawn, and have an examination performed. Then they exit with another physician who explains the physical results. 5. We mail the results of the prostatespecific antigen test directly to the patients who self-addressed an envelope when they checked in. Chris Gatlin, RN, OCN®, MHA Director, Medicine and Oncology Services Baton Rouge General Medical Center Baton Rouge, LA plan a Screening Event e plan and carry out our screening events in five simple steps. W Nurses Hold Fifth Post-ONS Congress in the Netherlands O n June 18, four weeks after the ONS 33th Annual Congress, which was held May 15–18 in Philadelphia, PA, a group of eight oncology nurses from the Netherlands who attended Congress presented the Fifth Annual Post-Congress meeting to share information with an audience of more than 200 Dutch oncology nurses in the Jaarbeurs Congress Centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Jan Ouwerkerk, RN, CNS, RC, of Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, and Erik van Muilekom, RN, CNS, MANP, of National Cancer Centre– Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam, coordinated the event. The fifth post-Congress meeting in ONS CONNECT Niek Golsteijn, Erik van Muilekom, Henk Mallo, Jan Ouwerkerk (back, left to right), Anita Kramers, Desi v/d Boogaard, Saskia de Bie, and Claudia van Opstal (foreground, left to right) Utrecht was made possible by a grant from Amgen BV, Novartis Pharma BV, and GlaxoSmithKline. For more information, visit www.postonsmeeting.nl. ✱ 14 September 2008 http://www.postonsmeeting.nl

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ONS Connect - September 2008 Contents Editor's Note Just In Advances in Prostate Cancer Treatment A Year in the Life - Month Nine Web Connect Capitol Connection Manage Infusion Reactions From Cetuximab Notice Nursing Now Caregiver Care Oropharyngeal Cancer in Men Associated with HPV Working for You Calendar of Events Staying on Top

ONS Connect - September 2008

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