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Winners of the 2003 nursing standard cancer nursing award

01 November 2003

Cancer Nursing Practice

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Establishing a new district palliative care service for elderly residents of care homes is a daunting task, but doesn’t even compare, says Patricia Hirst, with...

The 27th annual San Antonio breast cancer symposium

01 February 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

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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

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‘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...

Killing with kindness?

01 November 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

News analysis

Euthanasia is not a popular word in palliative care, even though its very name comes from the Greek for Eu, ‘good’ and Thanatos ‘death’. A ‘good death’ is the ethos...

Solving the PSA riddle

01 April 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

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Trying to engage any man in talking about his health can be difficult, and discussing a specific issue, such as prostate cancer, can be even harder. Some still don’t...

Insuring against the ‘Big C’

01 June 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

News analysis

Many tube travellers and televi- sion watchers in the London area have been surprised by a new advertisement in recent months. It’s an advert for cancer insurance....

Sharing the limelight

01 October 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

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New research from America suggests that being overweight and suffering from advanced ovarian cancer can be a lethal combination. According to the study published in...

A blow to the great english breakfast

01 February 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

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The traditional English breakfast consisting of bacon and eggs appears now to be under the researcher’s microscope, with evidence suggesting that certain chemicals...

Housework helps reduce the risk of breast cancer

01 February 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

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Scrubbing the kitchen floor and running round with the vacuum cleaner could be a better way to protect against breast cancer than going to the gym, according to the...

Geographical differences exist in occupational cancer

01 March 2008

Cancer Nursing Practice

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Cleaners, hairdressers, market gardeners and truck drivers are all at an increased risk of getting canc hrough their job, warns the latest research from New Zealand....