We Care: A Wellness Intervention Project for Palliative Care Physicians.

There is a trend toward burnout in palliative care physicians. Due to this, a five-session curriculum has been designed with resiliency tools, coping skills, and spirituality in order to train palliative care fellows in an inpatient setting. More research is needed on this curriculum, but preliminary findings have shown a positive response.

Facebook Online Support Groups for Hospice Family Caregivers of Advanced Cancer Patients: Protocol, Facilitation Skills and Promising Outcomes.

Research has demonstrated a lack of support for hospice caregivers and a higher than average level of self-reported anxiety and depression. While online support groups are gaining popularity, few protocols have been published, little research has demonstrated the skills required to facilitate, and virtually no data has explored the clinical outcomes affiliated with participation in such groups. This paper presents the preliminary experience and results of a clinical trial testing the use of online support groups designed to both educate and provide social support to caregivers of hospice cancer patients.

Immunostimulatory Response of RWFV Peptide-Targeted Lipid Nanoparticles on Bladder Tumor Associated Cells.

Bladder carcinoma is the most expensive tumor type to treat on a cost-per-patient basis from diagnosis to death. Treatment with Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) instillation is the only approved immunotherapy in the clinic for the remission of superficial bladder carcinoma. Unfortunately, frequent relapses, high local morbidity, risk of systemic mycobacterial infection, and occasional supply chain interruptions limit the utility of BCG for bladder cancer treatment.

Development And In Vitro Characterization Of Bladder Tumor Cell Targeted Lipid-Coated Polyplex For Dual Delivery Of Plasmids And Small Molecules.

Background: Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and eleventh most common in women. Combination therapy using a gene and chemotherapeutic drug is a potentially useful strategy for treating bladder cancer in cases where a synergistic benefit can be achieved successfully. This approach relies on developing drug combinations using carrier systems that can load both hydrophilic genes and hydrophobic drugs.