Meeting the decision-makers
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Meeting the decision-makers

Maria Guerin Chair, National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses, and lung cancer nurse specialist, Aintree Chest Centre
Nicola Bell Dip Pall Is Macmillan lung cancer nurse specialist, Harrogate and District Foundation Trust

Specialist lung cancer nurses are a vital resource for patients with lung cancer. Nicola Bell and Maria Guerin report on a lobby of parliament to raise awareness of the issue

More women die of lung cancer than breast cancer, and the disease kills more people than cancer of the prostate, bladder, breast and leukemia combined. This is not widely known, but the disease kills more than 34,000 people in the UK each year.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 7, 10, 20-20. doi: 10.7748/cnp.7.10.20.s22

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