ONS member Lisa Kottschade, MSN, APRN, CNP, nurse practitioner at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and member of the Southeast Minnesota ONS Chapter, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS staff writer/producer, to discuss how immunotherapies are combined with other treatments, ways evolving treatment indications influence nursing practices, and how to keep patients safe when receiving combination immunotherapy treatments.

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. 
• Adding Chemo to Immunotherapy May Resensitize Resistant Tumors
• Combining Radiation With Immunotherapy May Improve Survival
• Managing Immunotherapy-Related Adverse Events
• Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing immunotherapy supplement
• Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice
• Immunotherapy resources from ONS
• National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines for Management of Immunotherapy-Related Toxicities
• Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer