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  • Use the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Distress Thermometer to evaluate the degree of distress in cancer survivors.

  • When a patient with breast cancer is taking tamoxifen as an adjuvant endocrine therapy, do not prescribe antidepressants that may interfere with tamoxifen metabolism.

  • Describe screening of cancer survivors for the risk or presence of malnutrition and appropriate referral when risk or malnutrition is identified.

  • Counsel patients with a colostomy about ostomy care during exercise.

  • Summarize monitoring of prostate cancer survivors for development of cardiovascular disease.

  • Describe fracture risk assessment and screening in patients with prostate cancer who are receiving androgen deprivation therapy.

  • Manage the gastrointestinal, urinary, and sexual symptoms and conditions that occur in colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors.

  • Summarize appropriate surveillance tests to detect cancer recurrence in CRC survivors.

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