“Biomarkers give us information not only to diagnose a patient, but also to see whether a patient is going to have GVHD in the near future, whether a patient is going to respond to the treatment we’ll give, and what would be the overall outcome and survival.” ONS member Nilesh Kalariya, PhD, AGPCNP-BC, AOCNP®, research nurse practitioner at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, talks with Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, about managing acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and biomarkers for the condition. You can earn free NCPD contact hours by completing the evaluation linked in the episode notes.   

Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod  

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Episode Notes 

Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

• The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities.
• Kalariya et al.’s Oncology Nursing Forum article: Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation 
• ONS course: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
• ONS Huddle Card™: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
• ONS Voice articles about GVHD
• National Institutes of Health’s GVHD Working Group reports
• UpToDate results for GVHD research 

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