“I think educating patients of what can happen and those are the symptoms you're really looking for to decrease this from getting to the severe level is like the sensory stuff. It's kind of your starting point and it progresses from there,” Colleen Erb, MSN, CRNP, ACNP-BC, AOCNP®, hematology and oncology nurse practitioner at Jefferson Health Asplundh Cancer Pavilion in Willow Grove, PA, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a discussion about what nurses need to know about cancer- and treatment-related peripheral neuropathy. This episode is part of a series on cancer symptom management basics; the rest are linked below.  You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and completing the evaluation linked below.   Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod  Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0  Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD), which may be applied to the symptom management, palliative care, and supportive care ILNA categories, by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by December 15, 2025. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of NCPD by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.  Learning outcome: The learner will report an increase in knowledge related to peripheral neuropathy.  Episode Notes  Complete this evaluation for free NCPD.   Oncology Nursing Podcast Cancer Symptom Management Basics series  Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing articles: Balance and Gait Impairment: Sensor-Based Assessment for Patients With Peripheral Neuropathy  Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: Use of an Electronic Care Planning System to Improve Adherence to Recommended Assessment and Management Practices Instruments for Assessing Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: A Review of the Literature Extremity Cooling: A Synthesis of Cryotherapy Interventions to Reduce Peripheral Neuropathy and Nail Changes From Taxane-Based Chemotherapy  Oncology Nursing Forum article: Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review  ONS Symptom Interventions and Guidelines™: Peripheral Neuropathy  American Cancer Society’s patient information for peripheral neuropathy  American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Guideline: Prevention and Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Survivors of Adult Cancers  Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC): Neurological Complications  Overview of nursing skills for routine neurologic assessments   To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities.   To find resources for creating an ONS Podcast Club in your chapter or nursing community, visit the ONS Podcast Library.  To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email [email protected].  Highlights From Today’s Episode  “Our nervous system is sort of divided into three parts. The autonomic nervous system, which is kind of controlled homeostasis, blood pressure, your intestinal motility, things like that. The motor system, which is the efferent system, which is reflexes, muscle strength, sort of your big muscle movements, if you want to think of it that way. And then the sensory system, which is the afferent system, which is really what defines motion.” TS 1:51  “I think patients tend to blow off the mild numbness and tingling because they’re just like, ‘Oh, it’s just the side effect of my chemo’ and they don't realize that that can get progressively worse. So, they tend to not tell you, you know, ‘Oh do you have numb