NICSO National Study: Physician - Nurse Monitoring Project About Oncological Adverse Events

The lacking adherence to guidelines on prevention and treatment of different chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy induced toxicities is the reason why there are a potential incidence and duration increase of adverse events. It is clear the need of a collateral effect early recognition for an adequate clinical management and for limiting their intensity and duration.

A better toxicity management can have a positive impact on a correct treatments dose-intensity. Scientific community debate on toxicity assessment ways and means is still open. The most debated questions concern:

• Physician and/or patient reporting adverse events;

• Nurse role in the adverse events assessment;

• How much assessment methods (assessment frequency, who's involved in adverse events monitoring) means for:

• Time spent with toxicity and intensity reduction;

• Treatment adherence. Some literature evidence is avaiable and support the need of intensive monitoring of patients in terms of adverse events. However, there is the need for a multicentre randomized clinical study in specific therapeutical settings (chemotherapy, target therapy, immunotherapy) assessing the impact of planned and ongoing patients' monitoring by nurses.

This is a multi-centric, randomized, open comparative study design, between a planned and consecutive monitoring nurse intervention in addition to the chemotherapy toxicity prevention and cure standard therapy package insert (chemotherapy, target therapy, immunotherapy), and the only use of the cancer therapy toxicity prevention and cure standard therapy package insert (chemotherapy, target therapy, immunotherapy).