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Cancer and sexual intimacy

Having a diagnosis of breast cancer at a young age, together with chemotherapy and surgery, affects how women look at themselves – and sexual intimacy with partners

22 Sep 2017
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Nursing handovers between shifts on cancer wards have traditionally been badly organised and unproductive, says nurse researcher Lena Sharp.

25 Aug 2017
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Pulmonary rehabilitation

This is the second in our series of resources from the Cancer Nursing Partnership to support nurses in delivering cancer recovery packages.

18 Aug 2017
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Through surveys and interviews, and following in Woody Allen's footsteps, Macmillan Cancer Support want to highlight the importance of discussing death and dy

16 Aug 2017
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cooney

Healthcare assistant Elaine Cooney, highly commended at the RCNi Nurse Awards 2017 for improving the experience of patients with a rare cancer, gives up

03 Aug 2017
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Keep your learning up to date with our series of monthly toolkits to help support nurses in delivering recovery cancer care.

06 Jul 2017
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ECMC network

As the UK’s Experimental Cancer Medicines Centres (ECMC) network celebrates its tenth birthday, Karen Turner, a research nurse at Birmingham ECMC, looks back

21 Jun 2017
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Speaking at the inaugural Cancer Nursing Practice conference in Manchester, Sara Faithfull discusses nurses meeting the demands that 21st-century patients fac

19 May 2017
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Speaking at the inaugural Cancer Nursing Practice conference in Manchester, Cathy Heaven discusses the intensity cancer nurses face with their patients.

19 May 2017
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Speaking at the inaugural Cancer Nursing Practice conference in Manchester, Sinead Collins discusses how Maggie's centres can help with rehabilitation in patient-centred care

19 May 2017
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Speaking at the inaugural Cancer Nursing Practice conference in Manchester, Mark Foulkes discusses rising to the challenge of immunotherapies in oncology

19 May 2017
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Speaking at the inaugral CNP conference in Manchester, Phillipa Jones discusses encouraging nurses to become familiar with their oncology team.

19 May 2017

Speaking at the inaugural CNP conference in Manchester, Tracey Coleby discusses the benefits of proactive service

19 May 2017

Speaking at the inaugural Cancer Nursing Practice conference in Manchester, Lorraine Turner discusses the audit which resulted in more cancer patients being identified for clinical trials

19 May 2017

Michelle McKidd reveals how her unusual role, which spans hospital, community and social services, is breaking new ground in delivering palliative and end of life care

07 Apr 2017

The new UKONS president Richard Henry talks to Anne Horner about planning for a surge in older people with cancer and finding time to care in busy workplaces

22 Mar 2017

Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings in cancer services are not operating as efficiently as they could be, a report by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has found.

20 Feb 2017

Kinta Beaver leads the Endometrial Cancer Telephone (ENDCAT) trial team. Here, she explains the benefit of having specialist nurses provide a telephone follow-up service for patients.

06 Jan 2017

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