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The clinical management of patients with advanced breast cancer is complex and patients’ progress is often unpredictable, creating challenges for nursing ca
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Men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer often have a choice about treatment. This ambiguity lends itself to a shared decision-making process.
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Aim To explore healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards patients with cancer who smoke and how their attitudes affect the health promotion a
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This article describes the process of developing and implementing nursing grand rounds to support clinical learning in a regional cancer centre.
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The advent of novel targeted treatments with strict monitoring requirements for men with metastatic hormone-relapsed prostate cancer resulted in a 51% incre
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UK cancer policy aims to improve the quality of cancer services and enhance the experience of people affected by cancer.
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Active surveillance (AS) is a treatment option offered to men with low-risk prostate cancer, as an alternative to other radical curative interventions.
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This article presents results from a service evaluation exploring the effect of end of treatment consultations (EoTCs) for women with breast cancer.
A dramatic reduction in contact with health professionals six months after treatment for head and neck cancer was noted by the ear, nose and throat team at
Strategic interest in the skill mix of the healthcare workforce has acknowledged the increasingly important role of non-registered staff, with care for canc
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In 2012, Macmillan Cancer Support partnered with 15 NHS health providers in the UK to fund new ways of delivering supportive care to cancer patients in the
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This article discusses the development of a nurse-led, telephone assessment service (TAS) in a UK cancer centre.
The two-week rule was introduced to address delays in cancer diagnosis. It requires patients with suspected cancer to be seen by a specialist within two weeks of GP referral and has implications for colorectal departments in terms of managing demands on service provision.
Radiotherapy is the most commonly used treatment for patients with localised prostate cancer in the UK. It works by damaging a cell’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) so that it can no longer survive.
Radiotherapy practice is complex and daunting for children. With the support of a health play specialist, children are able to have their treatment without the use of a general anaesthetic.
Since the sequence of the human genome was first published in 2003, nowhere has its effect been more apparent than in the field of cancer research and, more recently, in cancer treatment.
Management of patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is changing with the development of promising novel therapies such as eribulin.
The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death highlighted the need to improve patient outcomes and safety when undergoing chemotherapy.
