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Optimizing Adherence to Adjuvant Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
The increasing use of patient-administered oral anticancer drugs is paralleled by new challenges in maintaining treatment adherence. These challenges are particularly significant with adjuvant therapies for prevention of disease recurrence, where the benefits of ongoing treatment are not readily app...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25032004 |
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author | Tetzlaff, Eric D. Davey, Monica P. |
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description | The increasing use of patient-administered oral anticancer drugs is paralleled by new challenges in maintaining treatment adherence. These challenges are particularly significant with adjuvant therapies for prevention of disease recurrence, where the benefits of ongoing treatment are not readily apparent to patients. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants (collectively referred to as advanced practitioners) play integral roles in providing education on disease and treatment to patients that can increase adherence to oral therapies and ideally improve outcomes. For patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), the oral targeted therapy imatinib has become the mainstay of treatment for advanced and recurrent disease and as adjuvant therapy following surgical resection. Recent data indicate significantly improved overall survival with 3 years vs. 1 year of adjuvant imatinib therapy. Continuous dosing with imatinib is needed for optimal efficacy and to limit additional health-care costs associated with management of disease progression in GIST. However, longer duration of therapy increases the risk of nonadherence. Imatinib adherence rates, as well as factors contributing to nonadherence to adjuvant therapy in routine clinical practice, are discussed in this review. Also explored are practical approaches for improving adherence to adjuvant imatinib therapy through greater patient education, in light of the increased duration of therapy in select patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-40934292014-07-16 Optimizing Adherence to Adjuvant Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Tetzlaff, Eric D. Davey, Monica P. J Adv Pract Oncol Review Article The increasing use of patient-administered oral anticancer drugs is paralleled by new challenges in maintaining treatment adherence. These challenges are particularly significant with adjuvant therapies for prevention of disease recurrence, where the benefits of ongoing treatment are not readily apparent to patients. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants (collectively referred to as advanced practitioners) play integral roles in providing education on disease and treatment to patients that can increase adherence to oral therapies and ideally improve outcomes. For patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), the oral targeted therapy imatinib has become the mainstay of treatment for advanced and recurrent disease and as adjuvant therapy following surgical resection. Recent data indicate significantly improved overall survival with 3 years vs. 1 year of adjuvant imatinib therapy. Continuous dosing with imatinib is needed for optimal efficacy and to limit additional health-care costs associated with management of disease progression in GIST. However, longer duration of therapy increases the risk of nonadherence. Imatinib adherence rates, as well as factors contributing to nonadherence to adjuvant therapy in routine clinical practice, are discussed in this review. Also explored are practical approaches for improving adherence to adjuvant imatinib therapy through greater patient education, in light of the increased duration of therapy in select patients. Harborside Press 2013 2013-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4093429/ /pubmed/25032004 Text en Copyright © 2013, Harborside Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is for non-commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Tetzlaff, Eric D. Davey, Monica P. Optimizing Adherence to Adjuvant Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor |
title | Optimizing Adherence to Adjuvant Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor |
title_full | Optimizing Adherence to Adjuvant Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor |
title_fullStr | Optimizing Adherence to Adjuvant Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor |
title_full_unstemmed | Optimizing Adherence to Adjuvant Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor |
title_short | Optimizing Adherence to Adjuvant Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor |
title_sort | optimizing adherence to adjuvant imatinib in gastrointestinal stromal tumor |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25032004 |
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