Rate My Professor Janice Withycombe

Withycombe’s research specializations encompass pediatric oncology, physical activity promotion, metabolomics, patient and family education, and patient-reported outcomes. She explores relationships between physical activity, oxidative stress, and symptoms like fatigue in children receiving cancer treatment, and has contributed to instrument development and validation for pediatric measures such as PROMIS and PRO-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events. As a Faculty Scholar in Clemson’s School of Health Research and immediate past Chair of the Nursing Research Committee for the Children’s Oncology Group, she advances symptom science and evidence-based practice. Notable awards include Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (2021), South Carolina Palmetto Gold Award (2022), Early Career Researcher Award from the Association of Pediatric Hematology Oncology Nurses (2018), Transdisciplinary Training in Energetics and Cancer National Cancer Institute Fellow (2018), and March of Dimes’ Pediatric Nurse of the Year for Georgia (2017). Key publications feature “Longitudinal use of patient reported outcomes in pediatric leukemia and lymphoma reveals clinically relevant symptomatic adverse events” (Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 2022), “Metabolites associated with fatigue and physical activity in childhood cancer” (Biological Research for Nursing, 2022), “Metabolic Pathways Associated With Psychoneurological Symptoms Cluster in Children With Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy” (Biological Research for Nursing, 2022), and “Validation of the Caregiver Pediatric Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events” (Cancer, 2021). Her contributions influence pediatric cancer clinical trials, symptom reporting, and survivorship care.