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And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 59. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

And today we actually have a very special guest with us today, Dr. Megan Hartramped.

Do you want to tell all the audience about yourself and your practice site?

Certainly.

Thank you for welcoming me back to the podcast.

I'm so happy to be here.

So I'm on faculty at Roslyn Franklin University, and my specialty is hematology oncology.

I have a practice site at Rush University

Medical Center in downtown Chicago where I run our oral chemotherapy clinic. So I get to meet with

patients starting new oral chemotherapies, talk to them and their families about side effects,

monitoring, and just generally what to expect from their treatment.

Awesome. Well, Megan, I invited you here today because I know that students are starting to think about

NAPlex, and as part of that, clearly oncology is a huge portion and one that, at least in

my experience, many students are less comfortable with.

So I thought that today would be a great time to go through, we're going to title this

episode as the five oncology drugs every pharmacist

should know about. And really the intent here is to kind of briefly overview five very common

chemotherapy classes, what we should know about them, and, you know, kind of a brief review of

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