VIEWPOINTS Educating Our Students About Pharmaceutical Care for Those Living With Cancer

Educating pharmacy students about cancer and phar-maceutical care in oncology can be difficult. Teaching is still largely focussed around hospital-based injectable chemotherapy. How often do our students meet people with cancer? Good communication skills are essential, but do we ever focus on the particular difficulties around communicating with cancer patients? Have we ever con-sidered educating students about pharmaceutical care for those living with cancer in the community? Over the last decade, progress in the early detection of cancer, cancer therapeutics, and other treatments have produced significant improvement in patient outcomes. As patients survive longer, they are receiving more drug treatment for longer periods. In many cases, this drug treatment is delivered orally rather than in the traditiona