Conversations About Immunotherapy and Caregiving

Guest: Melissa Wilson In this episode, Dr. Raymond Liu, Director of Cancer Survivorship at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, and host of AIM's podcast, "Beyond the Clinic: Living Well with Melanoma, and Melissa Wilson, PA-C, MPAS, Melanoma Lead at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, and AIM's Ask a Medical Expert, come together to address the many questions and concerns caregivers have as they support a loved one on immunotherapy. Practical care issues: How to spot an immunotherapy complication? What are the top things to look out for? How do you know when there is a problem that needs to be reported? Who do you report it to? What can the patient do while on immunotherapy (exercise, etc.)? What are caregiver and patient-reported outcomes and what does the evidence show? Issues not directly related to the disease: Financial worries – especially long-term treatment with immunotherapy. How to talk to loved ones and friends about it. Emotional impacts: Anxiety about the future Caregiver burn-out