A vital role
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A vital role

Emma Munro Cancer research trials team leader, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Essex

It strikes me that the increasing opinion of breast clinicians speaking at national trials meetings is that the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) is not necessarily a help but may even be a hindrance to patient recruitment, and that specialist research nurses are part of the administration team rather than the clinical team, while the consultant is seen as the recruiter.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 8, 4, 10-10. doi: 10.7748/cnp.8.4.10.s11

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