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The 27th annual San Antonio breast cancer symposium

01 February 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

News analysis

Clinical nurse specialists (CNS) rated higher on satisfaction questionnaires and spotted high anxiety in patients more accurately than doctors at a surgical follow-...

ASCO: results ‘look extremely promising’

01 June 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

News analysis

‘The results of the latest study on Herceptin for early-stage breast cancer presented at ASCO look extremely promising,’ says CancerBACUP’s cancer information nurse...

Cancer in specialist care?

01 April 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

Ms Lesley Thomson, clinical nurse specialist (CNS) at the Manchester Breast Unit, sums up the underlying air of resistance to capping the duration of specialist...

Boosting the immune system

01 September 2006

Nursing Older People

Feature

A s we become older, the defences that protect our bodies from disease become less effective. This deterioration of the immune system’s ability to respond to foreign...

Matters of the heart

01 December 2006

Nursing Older People

Cardiovascular

Cardiovascular patients and their partners have experienced significant lifestyle changes as a result of a nurse-led multidisciplinary team programme.

Falls

01 November 2006

Nursing Older People

Feature

An integrated falls service should have been established in all health and social care systems by April 2005. This was a requirement of the National Service...

A decade to change stroke care

01 February 2008

Nursing Older People

Feature

Making sure that patients who suffer a mini-stroke are given an MRI within 24 hours, and those who are thought to be susceptible are seen within seven days, could...

Assessing pain

01 May 2008

Nursing Older People

Feature

Last month, the charity Arthritis Care marked Arthritis Awareness Week (12th-18th April) with the launch of a new programme aimed at those living with chronic pain....