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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Outlook. 2008;56(3):123–131. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2008.02.004

Table 2.

Content Threads for TRBOCC Specialized Curriculum Courses

Transdisciplinary Cancer Care: Prevention, Screening, and Diagnosis Transdisciplinary Cancer Care: Treatment, Survivorship, and EOL
Genetics Symptom Management
Diagnosis & Staging Clinical trials
Screening Quality of Life
Carcinogenesis Chronic/Late Effects
Epidemiology Benefit Finding/Post-traumatic Growth
Cancer type/Biology Fear of Reoccurrence
Policy Cancer Treatment
 Localized therapy
 Systemic therapy
 Molecularly targeted therapy
Community
Health Communication Interventions
 Risk perception
 Lifestyle modification
Surveillance Complementary/Alternative Therapy
Environmental influences on development of cancer Molecular and cellular factors that cause metastasis
Chemoprevention End of life care
Impact of diagnosis on family Impact of treatment on family
Disparities – access, utilization Disparities – cancer outcomes
Cross-cultural Cross-cultural
Communication
 Patient-Provider
 Family		 Communication
 Patient-Provider
 Family
Decision Making/Behavior change Decision Making/Shared Decisions
Information seeking Information seeking
Clinical Ethics Clinical ethics
Clinical guidelines Clinical guidelines
Prognosis Prognosis
Translation Translation

NOTE: Shaded boxes indicate content that crosses both courses.