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Cancer: beginners guides

01 July 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

Book Review

CANCER is a common disease: one in three of us is likely to be diagnosed with it at some point in our lives. but, despite increased awareness, it is still often...

Implications of genetic screening for the risk of breast cancer

08 July 2010

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

Specialist cancer genetics services and genetic counselling provide eligible individuals with information about their risk of developing cancer based on an...

Confronting hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

01 July 2012

Cancer Nursing Practice

Book Review

THREE BREAST cancer survivors write as advocates for those with hereditary cancers and as part of an organisation dedicated to supporting such families.

The language of life

01 September 2010

Cancer Nursing Practice

Book Review

FRANCIS COLLINS is an american doctor who was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome ten years ago. This book is intended as a user manual of what you need...

An overview of gastric cancer and its management

08 July 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

CPD

Gastric (stomach) cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, despite decreasing incidence. Prognosis is poor, because patients often...

Genetic counselling for those at risk from familial gastric cancer

01 September 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

Gastric cancer usually affects people over 60 and carries a poor prognosis because diagnosis typically occurs at an advanced stage. Recently, researchers have found...

The nurse’s role in promoting breast awareness

12 April 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background Breast cancer affects up to one in 12 women in the UK. Breast awareness, which is advocated in place of routine breast examination, involves women...

Stenting improves quality of life in the management of oesophageal cancer patients

01 April 2008

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

Oesophageal cancer has a poor prognosis with an overall survival rate of approximately 10 per cent. The most debilitating and distressing symptom associated with...

The war on cancer

01 November 2012

Cancer Nursing Practice

Book Review

AS SOMEONE who works as a cancer genetics counsellor, but entered the profession from a nursing background, I found this book interesting although difficult to read....